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Cabinet - Sources

Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
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Robert Boyle's (1627-1691) plate
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Oswald Croll, Basilica chymica, 1609
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A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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Pietro da Cortona, Ceiling of Palazzo Barberini, Rome (1633-1639)
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Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
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JH2: Silver tetradrachm of Akanthos (Chalcidice), fragment, c. 470 BC.
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Jacopo Antonio Marcello Presents the Manuscript of Strabo to Rene d'Anjou (1459)
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12. Olive oil
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Серьги «Самовары»
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Explore the Display Case
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Archbishop William Laud and the Bishops' War (1639-40)
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Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon (England, late 14th century)
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Star Fort of Palmanova (1593)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 140)
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Xylography before typography, 1423 and after
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Rosso Fiorentino, Elephant Fresco (c. 1536)
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William Wordsworth, A Guide through the District of the Lakes in the North of England (Kendal, 1835)
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План-схема Самарканда (Узбекистан)
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Silver
Certificate of purges (Kyrgyzstan)
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«Манас» Орозбакова (Кыргызстан)
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VI.8 Institutionalising humanist philology
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