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Cabinet - Sources

BSH8: Silver stater of Soloi (Cilicia), c. 440–420 BC.
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V.3 Grammar: a window on the ancient world
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John Wilkins
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Studiolo of Francesco I: Prometheus and Nature
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Anatomical engravings
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Comenius's Praeludia, 1637
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From humanist manuscripts to italic pocketbooks: the Aldine press, 1501
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Title page to part one: Organographia
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Cabinet for Ferdinand II of Tyrol, c. 1582
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Explanation of the design of Uraniborg with all its premises
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Index of Prohibited Books
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Timeline
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‘Christian Monuments, Tassorić’ / ‘Graveyard at Tassorić’
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T30: Silver shekel, struck at Tyre, c. 425-394 BC.
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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘Remarks on Totemism...’ (1899)
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Купюра 10 000 рублей Туркестанской Совесткой Республики
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Clock with Automated Procession of Bacchus, ca 1580
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The transmission of knowledge: From manuscript to print
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VI.4 The founding event: a university disputation
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Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, Augsburg, ca 1625
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Ptolemy World Map, 1540
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The four humours
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 40v
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VI.7 The Reformation as lecture
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