Cabinet - Sources

Voyages of Zheng He (1405-1433)
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Colophon, fol. 45v
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1914 and 1914-1915 Star
Chinese Alchemy
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Корона "Тилля Каш" (Кыргызстан)
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Transcription: "A Year and a Day."
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The First Printed Edition of the Vita Nuova, 1576
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Wellcome MS 290, fol. 53v
Morisonian Herbarium
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Sphaera civitatis
Studiolo of Francesco I: A Renaissance Worldview
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Nautilus Cup with Eagle Claw (1526-1575)
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Richard Verstegan, Theatrum Crudelitatem Haereticorum Nostri Temporis (1587)
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 40v
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Columbus's lucky mistake: the oldest surviving terrestrial globe, 1492
9. Stirrups
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Глиняная свистулька (Узбекистан и Таджикистан)
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Jacob Bobart the Elder (c.1599-1680)
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Collegio Ghislieri, University of Pavia
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Title page of Francis Bacon's Instauratio Magna (1620)
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Mosaic (Kazakhstan)
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Terracotta 'Persian rider' from Selemieh
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План-схема Самарканда (Узбекистан)
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Verses in praise of Tycho Brahe by Rudolph Caukerchius, fols. 44v-45r.
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