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Cabinet - Sources

Sundials in the Renaissance
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 374)
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Astronomical table clock
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T22: Silver 1/6 siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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'The Flight of the Vestal Virgins,' Biagio di Antonio Tucci
T28: Silver sixteenth-shekel, struck at Sidon in the name of the satrap Mazaios, 336/5 BC.
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Clone of The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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Kano Naizen, Portuguese Carrack in Nagasaki (late 16th-early 17th century)
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Mysia: Sites and Sources
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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Andrea Palladio, Villa Barbaro, Maser - Veneto (1554-1558)
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Поэтический памятник советского постмодернизма (Таджикистан)
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Mariner’s astrolabe, Spain, bronze (c. 1600)
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Ptolemy World Map, 1540
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Купюра 10 000 рублей Туркестанской Совесткой Республики
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Palazzo Carignano, Turin (1679)
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VI.4 The founding event: a university disputation
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Gunpowder Warfare
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Clone of San Zeno Wheel (Verona, c. 1450)
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II.3 'Universitas magistrorum et scholarium’: a self-governing corporation of teachers and students
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John Tradescant the Elder
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Runic Almanac
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Background: Botany in Ancient and Medieval Europe
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