Cabinet - Sources

The Suitcase (Kazakhstan)
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Course description
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Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Столы (Таджикистан)
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Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Basel, 1542)
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Clone of Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Drawing of a Croatian woman
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"Achaemenid Bowl" from Deve Hüyük (B)
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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John Danvers' plate
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, ca 1620
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Churches at Sodankylä
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Mystics
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Monk automaton, probably Spanish, ca 1550
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Anatomical theatres: Padua, 1594
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Browne's Collection: a 'Cabinet of Rarities'
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Night Encounters
Vannuccio Biringuccio, Pirotechnia (1540)
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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'Star forts', 'gunpowder fortifications', and the 'trace italienne'
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Xylography before typography, 1423 and after
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Saami couple
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Crucifix Dial, Adriaan Zeelst (1588)
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Sir Isaac Newton, by Godfrey Keller (1702)
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