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Cabinet - Sources

Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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T16: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the satrap Mazaios, c. 361-333 BC.
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Thomas Browne, 'Religio Medici' (1642)
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Ivalo valley
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Pierre Gassendi, 'Institutio Astronomica' (1683)
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Prague, 1599-1612: The Rudolphine Tables (1627)
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Silver and gold phiale from the Lydian Treasure
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Sources: nature, reason, experience, and tradition
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Introduction: architecture becomes a liberal art
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The 1532 Venetian Reprint of the Giuntina
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Lunar volvelle
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The four humours
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Jaca Bastion Fort, Spain
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Catacomb Saints
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The newly acquired Gothic coffer
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The Waldseemüller map, 1507
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Bodleian Library, MS Canon. Ital. 258, fol. 32r
Map of Assyrian Empire (824 BC and 671 BC)
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Spain and Portugal Demarcation Lines
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Arba (Kazakhstan)
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The Four Voyages of Columbus (1492-1504)
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Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus
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Rice fields (Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan)
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John Tradescant the Younger with Roger Friend and a Collection of Exotic Shells
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