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Cabinet - Sources

Chinese Alchemy
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Дала-шийпон (Узбекистан)
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Mould
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‘Head of Slavonian’
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Drawing of Doboj fortress
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Rhinoceros horn cup, Prague 1611
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Theodor de Bry, Oppidum Secota (c. 1590)
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Translating the five orders: John Thorpe, 1601
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Lithograph of a Swedish man and woman
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Commemorative postage stamps with architecture of Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
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T22: Silver 1/6 siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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The 15th-century printing types
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Mysia: Sites and Sources
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Perspective Applied: Masaccio, Trinità (c.1426-1428)
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Illustrations
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Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort's (1630-1715) plate
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New plants, new medicines
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Revolving azimuth quadrant
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Descartes' Discourse (1637)
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The not so ‘dark side’
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Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione (c.1514-1515)
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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The parallatic or ruler-instrument
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