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Cabinet - Sources

The celestial sphere: the fifth element the geocentric cosmology
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Flea
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T9: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Perikles of Limyra, c. 390-360 BC.
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Armillary Sphere (from 1613)
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David Loggan’s ‘Hortus Botanicus' (1675)
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II.1 Where, and what, was the university?
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'Universitas': the original meaning of the term
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John of Sacrobosco, De Sphaera Mundi (Venice, 1490)
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Alchemical Pestle and Mortar
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Drawing of a Bulgarian settlement
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Johannes Hevelius, Machina coelestis, 1673: Frontispiece
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Title page of Through Bosnia and the Herzegovina on Foot... (1877)
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Бетонные заборы (Кыргызстан)
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 391(5), fol. 9r
Mercator, World Map (1569)
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Cabinet for Ferdinand II of Tyrol, c. 1582
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Week 3: Sites and Sources
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 420-21)
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Vitruvius on architecture
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Ecclesiastical territories: the palace of the prince-bishop of Würzburg
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Ptolemy World Map, 1540
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T8: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Mithrapata of Antiphellos, c. 390-360 BC.
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Drawing of a woman
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Oldenburg's correspondence
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