Cabinet - Sources

Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Frankfurt, 1598)
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Clone of Icon of Mahatma Gandhi
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Descartes' Discourse (1637)
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Sunday best or bound for China?
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Караганда (Казахстан)
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Quadrans Maximus
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Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 939 (section 5, verso)
Anatomy theatres
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Jacopo Pontormo, The Deposition from the Cross (1525-1528)
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Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
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Via Lucis, 1641-2 / 1668
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Mariner’s astrolabe, Spain, bronze (c. 1600)
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Parmigianino, Madonna of the Long Neck (1534-1540)
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Elias Ashmole
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Orozbakov’s Manas (Kyrgyzstan)
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Tomb of Cyrus at Pasargadae
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Sources: nature, reason, experience, and tradition
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Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon (England, late 14th century)
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Early Fellows of the Royal Society
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Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528)
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 444-5)
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Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, Augsburg, ca 1625
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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘Remarks on Totemism...’ (1899)
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Albrecht Dürer, Self-portrait in fur coat, 1500
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