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Cabinet - Sources

Michael Maier (1568–1622)
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Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
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Introduction: New inventions, c. 1600
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The world's earliest dated printed book: The Diamond Sutra, 868 CE
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Swedish woman
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Glory to Belgium
Carta Pisana, ca 1275-1300
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Saami couple
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John Tradescant Jr in his Garden
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Vannuccio Biringuccio, Pirotechnia (1540)
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‘Mysterious Sepulchres, Podove’
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Plane dial
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Bobart the Younger’s Hortus Siccus
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna with Four Saints (1505)
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Winchester College in the 17th Century
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Domenichino, Triumphal Arch (c. 1609)
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T31: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the Egyptian satrap Sabakes, c.340-333 BC.
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VI.9 Unintended consequences
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The three perfections: poetry and painting
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The First Printed Edition of the Vita Nuova, 1576
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Thomas Millington's (1628-1703) plate
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Conical dial
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Перевод Дюшена (Таджикистан)
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