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Cabinet - Sources

Architecture: Serlio's Five Books of Architecture, 1537-51
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T18: Silver siglos, “King half-length” Carradice Type 1.
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Key innovation: the escapement
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War and Peace in Europe, 1598-1650
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17. Polishing weapons
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JH8: Silver bar-ingot, cut down to size from a larger bar.
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A chemise binding
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Andrea Palladio, Villa La Rotonda, Vicenza (1567-1585)
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Innovation and Printing
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Philip II of Spain by Titian (1549-1550)
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Francis I Gallery at the Fontainbleau Castle
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Letters Patent of Edward III (1347)
Woman and child
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Gunpowder in the Nova reperta
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Johann König, Last Judgement on alabaster, before 1632
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The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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Musaeum Tradescantianum, 1656
Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)
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Wire-drawing bench, Nuremberg, before 1565
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Beer cellar
Flea
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Crucifixion in coral
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Ghirlandaio, Confirmation of the Franciscan Rule (1485)
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Arrowheads from Deve Hüyük
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