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Cabinet - Sources

William Harvey (1578-1657)
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Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Ulm, 1482)
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Automata
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Commemorative postage stamps with architecture of Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
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Nova reperta: title page
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Abyssinian roll of parchment
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Drawing of a lake
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Week 2: Sites and Sources
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Wellcome MS 290, fol. 52v
Finding the qibla
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Cabinet for Ferdinand II of Tyrol, c. 1582
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The 15th-century printing types
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Anthony Wood (1632-1695) and Postmaster's Hall
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Translation of the Qu'ran by Sayyid Mahmud Tarazi (Uzbekistan/India)
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Collegio Ghislieri, University of Pavia
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Alexander VII, by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (after 1650)
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Orozbakov’s Manas (Kyrgyzstan)
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Galileo's most decisive telescopic observation: the phases of Venus, 1610-23
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Emblem 'Am I not a Man and a Brother'?
Russian man
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T14: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the general Pharnabazos, c. 380-373 BC.
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Oxford's Physick Garden, 1621
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Innumerable new stars
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Cabinet for August of Brunswick-Lüneburg, c. 1630
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