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Cabinet - Sources

II.5 'Authentica habita': Academic garments to distinguish town from gown
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V.1 ‘Humanism’: an educational curriculum
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7. Distillation
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Follower of David Teniers the Younger, Alchemist in his Laboratory (early 18th century)
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Columbus's lucky mistake: the oldest surviving terrestrial globe, 1492
Map of the New World, 1544
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Soldier’s Letters
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The Idiot Boy (vol. 1)
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Fanny's Scales
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Lighter
Bembo Family's Sallust
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Bronze phiale from Deve Hüyük
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14. Oil paint
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Dedication (cont.)
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Queenie Vol. VIII, No. 3
'Like a bundle of thin laths'
Rhodes House, South Parks Road
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Star Fort of Palmanova (1593)
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Houses and totem poles in Masset (print)
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Pay book
From Italy to Germany, 1390: the precondition of the print revolution
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Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
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Vatican Library, MS Pal.lat. 1325, fol. 349v
John Knox (1514-1572) - Portraits
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