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Cabinet - Sources

Oswald Croll, Basilica chymica, 1609
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Philosophical Transactions, no. 178 (1685)
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Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Basel, 1542)
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
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Phoenicia: Sites and Sources
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John Knox (1514-1572) - Portraits
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The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
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Armillae aliae AEquatoriae
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 43v
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Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 391(2), fol. 3r
Frunze Museum, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
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Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach, 1710
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Map of the New World, 1544
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Orozbakov’s Manas (Kyrgyzstan)
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Looking presidential
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Behistun relief and inscription
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Studiolo of Isabella d'Este
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A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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BSH13: Silver bar-ingot (complete).
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Red-figure krater painted by the "Darius painter", c. 340-320 BC.
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‘Outline of Tracery’
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