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Cabinet - Sources

The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Железорудные окатыши и индустриальные моногорода (Казахстан)
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Anabaptism in Early Modern Europe
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The arts: liberal and mechanical
Image for Hans Burgkmair the Elder, Imperial Eagle with Emblems of the Celtis Society, 1507.
Lunar volvelle
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 428)
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Princess Mary Gift Tin (3D)
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The Tradescant family tomb
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T2: Silver tetradrachm in the name of Idrieus, satrap of Caria (351-344 BC).
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Studiolo of Francesco I: The Fire Wall
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Arcimboldo, Rudolf II as Vertumnus (1590-1591)
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The Settala Collection, 1666
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A Poetic Anthology from the Veneto (MS Can. Ital. 81)
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Map of the New World, 1544
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Forte Michelangelo, Civitavecchia, Roma (1508-1535)
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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BSH7: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class B””), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 15 November 1900
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T24: Gold daric, “King with bow and spear”, Carradice Type 3.
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Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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Cartographic table, Nuremberg, c. 1553
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Sunday best or bound for China?
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Wrought iron bombards, early 15th century
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