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Cabinet - Sources

Clone of Icon of Mahatma Gandhi
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Instruments: preserved in the Museo Galileo
Elephant Automaton Clock, Augsburg, 1600-10
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University of Helmstedt
Epilogue: 1470 and after
Botanical gardens outside Italy
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Drawing of The Seven Sisters
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The Idle Shepherd Boys (vol. 2)
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III.3 The Seven Liberal Arts
Certificate of purges (Kyrgyzstan)
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Astrolabe table clock
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Helioscope
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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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Pickled Cucumbers (Kyrgyzstan)
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The Life of Sir Thomas Browne
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Mosaic philosophy
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Albrecht Dürer, Rhinoceros, 1515
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August of Saxony by Lucas Cranach jr., 1572
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Week 6: Sites and Sources
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Henry Compton's (1631/2-1713) plate
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T11: Silver stater struck at Tarsos, c. 410-385 BC.
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Russian mother with children
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The Oxford Philosophical Society
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Looking to the future
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