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Cabinet - Sources

Architecture: Serlio's Five Books of Architecture, 1537-51
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Japanese pillar clock
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Хлопок как символ (Узбекистан)
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Saami group
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Ordering plants
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 391(5), fol. 9r
Lithograph of a bear hunt
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Background: Botany in Ancient and Medieval Europe
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Sylva Sylvarum (London, 1627, 1651)
Printing and salvation in Japan: One Million Pagodas, ca. 764–70 CE
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Bodleian, MS Digby 81, fol. 128v
Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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Medial Wall Gyri Model
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II.4 'Privilegium scholasticum': the jurisdiction of the Chancellor's Court
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A map of the spread of printing in Europe
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Painting with oils: a recent invention
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Refurbishing Duke Humphrey's, 1598-1602
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The 1532 Venetian Reprint of the Giuntina
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John Knox (1514-1572) - Portraits
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Map of the New World, 1544
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Cartographic table, Nuremberg, c. 1553
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De Sphera
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Надпись «Ленинград-Ташкенту» (Узбекистан)
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