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Cabinet - Sources

Russian tailor’s apprentices
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Armillary Sphere (from 1613)
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Stradanus, Distillation (Nova Reperta)
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Quadrans Maximus
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A supra-national entity
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Islam in the 9th Century
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August of Saxony by Lucas Cranach jr., 1572
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Introduction and Contents
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"Achaemenid Bowl" from Deve Hüyük (B)
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John Knox (1514-1572) - Portraits
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Pierre Belon, 'De aquatilibus, Libri duo' (1553)
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Transcription: "Women and Land."
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'Universitas': the original meaning of the term
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T7: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Kuprlli of Xanthos, c. 480-420 BC.
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VI.5 Early milestones: Reformation disputations
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Drawing of mountains
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg, ca 1585
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Genoese territories and trade routes
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From the Bobarts' Herbaria to Morison's Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis (1699)
Bibliography
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Drawing of a lake
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Title page (vol. 1)
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Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus
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Week 3: Sites and Sources
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