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Cabinet - Sources

Instruments: described in the Saggi
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Avarice
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Mercator, World Map (1569)
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Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, Augsburg, ca 1625
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Studiolo of Francesco I: The Fire Wall
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Origins of paper
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T27: Silver dishekel, struck at Sidon in the name of the satrap Mazaios, 336/5 BC.
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Explore the Display Case
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Clone of Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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The Medieval Worldview
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Quadrans Magnus Chalibeus Quadrato Inclusus
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Quadrans Maximus
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The Woman Who Did
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Studiolo of Isabella d'Este
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Leo X by Raphael (c. 1518)
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Letter from John Wordsworth to his father Revd Wordsworth
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Vitruvius on architecture
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The Idiot Boy (vol. 1)
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Autobiography of Udjahorresne
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A poem written by Christopher Wordsworth at Winchester
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Drawing of a quern
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Shrapnel paper knife
Jaca Bastion Fort, Spain
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Titian, Portrait of Jacopo Sannazaro (c.1514-1518)
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