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Cabinet - Sources

Different "Dantes" for the 20th Century
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Red-figure krater painted by the "Darius painter", c. 340-320 BC.
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Princess Mary Gift Tin (3D)
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Saami woman
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War and Peace in Europe, 1598-1650
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Funerary monument for John Case
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Terracotta 'Persian rider' from Al Mina (3D)
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Christopher Wren's (1632-1723) plate
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T27: Silver dishekel, struck at Sidon in the name of the satrap Mazaios, 336/5 BC.
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Plant to printed image: Helichrysum
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Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus
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7. Distillation
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Globe cup, Zurich c. 1580–90
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1979 offer letter
Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Fanny's Chickens
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Natural philosophy and medicine: the university curriculum
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Tables (Tajikistan)
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John Evelyn's (1620-1706) plate
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Sources: nature, reason, experience, and tradition
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6. Guaiacum and syphilis
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Andrea Palladio, Il Redentore Church, Venice (1575-1576)
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An Anthology of Dante’s ‘Minor’ Works (MS Can. Ital. 114)
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