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Cabinet - Sources

Alchemical Pestle and Mortar
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The five orders as sets of mathematical proportions: Hans Blum, 1550
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Types
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II.5 'Authentica habita': Academic garments to distinguish town from gown
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II.1 Where, and what, is the university?
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Clone of Instruments for Dissection
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Spoon of decorated reindeer antler
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The Gutenberg Bible
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Украшения бабушки (Кыргызстан)
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Russian man
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Relics
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David Loggan’s ‘Hortus Botanicus' (1675)
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A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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Sphaera civitatis
Writing Systems
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Kepler's Mysterium cosmographicum, 1596
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Saami settlement on Lake Hammasjarvi
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 17403, folios 4r-4v
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Çan Sarcophagus, 1st quarter of 4th century BC.
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Firearms: the earliest European image, 1326-7
Necklace with acorn pendants from the Lydian Treasure
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I.3. University matriculations in Germany and England, 1400-1810
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The Astrolabe
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Johannes Kepler, 'Harmonices Mundi' (1619)
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