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Cabinet - Sources

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Samuel Puchas, Purchas his pilgrimes, vol. 3 (London, 1625)
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'Tradescant's Orchard' Herbal
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Santucci's sphere, Florence, 1588-93
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Michelangelo, Vestibule to the Laurentian Library (1559)
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‘Bulgarian Profile’
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Head of a fly
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The 1491 First Edition of Dante's Lyric Poetry
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Saami cradle
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Перевод Корана Саййиддом Махмуд Тарази (Узбекистан/Индия)
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‘Turkish Café, Tesanj’
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Theophrastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus (1493-1541)
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Week 3: Sites and Sources
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III.3 The Seven Liberal Arts
Anatomy: Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Follower of David Teniers the Younger, Alchemist in his Laboratory (early 18th century)
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Henry Compton's (1631/2-1713) plate
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Drawing of mountains
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Plant to printed image: Helichrysum
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Receipt for a payment to Robert Hanley Hall, 6 December 1900
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Christopher Wren
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'Like a bundle of thin laths'
A Scientific Revolution
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Vannuccio Biringuccio, Pirotechnia (1540)
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