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Cabinet - Sources

Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 7 1915
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Russian man
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Lunar cycle
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Kepler's Mysterium cosmographicum, 1596
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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From humanist manuscripts to italic pocketbooks: the Aldine press, 1501
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Bladder fish
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JH2: Silver tetradrachm of Akanthos (Chalcidice), fragment, c. 470 BC.
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From Italy to Germany, 1390: the precondition of the print revolution
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Michelangelo, Last Judgment (1536-1541)
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Hooke's Micrographia, 1665
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Drawing of Mount Bjelašnica
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Astronomical tower clocks, ca 1380-1588
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Bread roll
Mountains on the moon
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Virgil, Eclogues (Aldus Manutius, 1501)
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Piero della Francesca, Flagellation (c.1455–1460)
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Drawing of a Croatian woman
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John Danvers' plate
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Drawing to printed image: Blephilia
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Natural philosophy and medicine: the university curriculum
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Examination Papers (1978)
Арба (Казахстан)
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