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Cabinet - Sources

Planning the New Basilica
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Week 2: Sites and Sources
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Украшения бабушки (Кыргызстан)
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Drawing of a graveyard
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Casino di San Marco: 'The House of Nature'
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Ptolemy World Map, 1540
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The celestial sphere: the fifth element the geocentric cosmology
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Artillery
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Joan's Short Story
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Richard Verstegan, Theatrum Crudelitatem Haereticorum Nostri Temporis (1587)
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Writing For and By Women
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Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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Netsuke representing Tanuki, the raccoon dog (3-D)
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Colophon, fol. 45v
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Рисовые поля (Казахстан/Кыргызстан)
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T16: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the satrap Mazaios, c. 361-333 BC.
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Drawing to printed image: Blephilia
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 41r
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Introduction: New inventions, c. 1600
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Topography of the island of Hven
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BSH7: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class B””), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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Archibald Pitcairne's (1652-1713) plate
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Statue of Buddha
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Batells