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Cabinet - Sources

Great azimuth semicircle
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T14: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the general Pharnabazos, c. 380-373 BC.
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Felice Feliciano, Alphabetum Romanum
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Rhinoceros horn cup, Prague 1611
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The newly acquired Gothic coffer
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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‘Monster House’
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Genoese territories and trade routes
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Sundials in antiquity
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Stradanus, Distillation (Nova Reperta)
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Models of Saami women
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Jacopo Pontormo, The Deposition from the Cross (1525-1528)
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Epilogue: 1470 and after
Pietro da Cortona, Dying St Alessio (c. 1638)
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Map of Assyrian Empire (824 BC and 671 BC)
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Nevada-Semipalatinsk pennant (Kazakhstan)
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The Victoria Cross
Portable Sundials
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Poster "Educate the children to work"
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Transcription: "Use The Language of Love."
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Richard of Wallingford's Astronomical Clock
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Anatomical engravings
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Prague, 1584: Celestial globe clock
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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