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Cabinet - Sources

Andrea Palladio, Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice (1566-1610)
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VI.3 The founder: a university professor
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Cantino world map (1502)
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Shrapnel paper knife
Plate to print: process
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T5: Gold stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Prisoner of War notification
A mathematical model?
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William Harvey (1578-1657)
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Houses and totem poles in Masset
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Oxford's Physick Garden, 1621
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"One small step..."
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Silver
Wooden Cross (3D)
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Anatomical engravings
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Willem Piso and Georg Marggraf's 'Historia naturalis Brasiliae' (1648)
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Camera obscura
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, March 31, 1915
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Domenichino, Triumphal Arch (c. 1609)
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18. The astrolabe
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Divinity School
Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 372)
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Transitions to print: Virgil, Eclogues (Aldus Manutius, 1501)
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Papal Coin, Boniface VIII