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Cabinet - Sources

Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
Nixon’s the charm
Image for Charm bracelet, Richard M. Nixon (Republican)
Ewer formed from a Seychelles nut, Prague, 1602
Image for Pitcher formed from a Seychelles nut, Prague, 1602
From the Bobarts' Herbaria to Morison's Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis (1699)
Polish Prayer Book (Kazakhstan)
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Johann Joachim Winkelmann
A Copy of the Convivio (MS Ital. d 5)
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Michael Maier (1568–1622)
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Richard Verstegan, Theatrum Crudelitatem Haereticorum Nostri Temporis (1587)
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Biblioteca Malatestiana, Cesena
Image for Reading Room in Biblioteca Malatestiana
T20: Silver siglos, “King with bow and spear” Carradice Type 3.
Image for T20: Silver siglos, “King with bow and spear” Carradice Type 3. [Obverse]
Printed model to printed image: Cyclamen
Image for Printed illustration struck from a copper plate engraved by Frederick Hendrick van Hove and published in Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 13, Tab. 7)
Karaburun Tumulus II, early 5th century BC.
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Finnish man
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Florence, 1588-93: Santucci's sphere
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Дом-музей М.В. Фрунзе, Бишкек (Кыргызстан)
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Rhodes House, South Parks Road
Image for Zimbabwe bird carving - Rhodes House
Conical dial
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Поэтический памятник советского постмодернизма (Таджикистан)
Image for Image 1: A poetic monument to Soviet post-modernism (Tajikistan)
Menu
Proof, plate editing and print
Image for Proof, published plate and reverse of the copper printing plate of ‘GRAMINA LOLIACEA, DACTYLA, PHALARIS, PANICUM, ijsq[ue] congenera’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 8, Tab. 3). Plants drawn and copper plate engraved
‘Head of Slavonian’
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Week 7: Sites and Sources
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Astrolabe table clock
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