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Cabinet - Sources

The Bibliophile Jean Grolier (1479-1565)
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​Boats on the Torne river
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John Danvers' plate
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Pilgrimage
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II.6 Academic hierarchies
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Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, fol. 244r
Map of Europe in 1519
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Studiolo of Francesco I de Medici, 1570-75
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The first map of 'America': the Waldseemüller map, 1507
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Forte Michelangelo, Civitavecchia, Roma (1508-1535)
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Reimagination
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Imser Planetary Clock, ca 1554-61
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T22: Silver 1/6 siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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Plate to print: carrot
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Summary chronology of early printing
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An Anthology of Dante’s ‘Minor’ Works (MS Can. Ital. 114)
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Astronomical Device (3D)
Heating Source: Hearth
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'Palissy Ware' Dish
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Oxford as a Window on Seventeenth-Century Science
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Kano Naizen, Portuguese Carrack in Nagasaki (late 16th-early 17th century)
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V.4 Rhetoric: the art of persuasion
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August of Saxony by Lucas Cranach jr., 1572
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The celestial sphere: the fifth element the geocentric cosmology
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