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Cabinet - Sources

Lithograph of a bear hunt
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Jacopo Pontormo, The Deposition from the Cross (1525-1528)
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The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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A Commedia with a Lyric Collection (MS Can. Ital. 111)
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Letter: "Homesteads for Women."
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 444-5)
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 21 1915
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Clone of Jardin des Plantes in Paris (1636)
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Anatomical Theatres
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Paper flowers
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Week 3: Sites and Sources
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 410-11)
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Letter from Laurence Dunne
The uses of the telescope, 1609-10
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BSH2: Silver octadrachm of the Bisaltai (Thrace), fragment, c. 465 BC.
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Five sculptural fragments from Persepolis
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Gaudy 1988
Drawing of a Turkish café
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18. The astrolabe
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Alchemy, the Four Elements, and the Tria Prima
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Saami settlement on Lake Hammasjarvi
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Portuguese and Spanish Trade Routes
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 40v
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Transcription: "Mother's Holiday."
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