Cabinet - Sources

A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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'Median' dagger from Deve Hüyük
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T4: Silver tetradrachm struck in western Asia Minor (?), c. 341-334 BC.
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Justus Lipsius (1547-1606)
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Maps as symbols of power: Gallery of Maps, Vatican Palace, 1580-83
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Tomb of Cyrus at Pasargadae
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Francis Bacon, c. 1618
A Miscellany Written in Prison (MS Can. Ital. 50)
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Descartes's correspondence
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Bodleian, MS Canon. Misc. 559, fol. 2r
Bodleian Library, MS Canon. Ital. 258, fol. 32r
Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Seal of Darius I (BM)
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
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Dresden, 1581: Georg Wecker's polyhedra
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Polish man smoking a pipe
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Course description
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Jardin des Plantes in Paris (1636)
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Private Lives
Petrarch’s Canzoniere and Triumphs with one sonnet attributed to Dante (MS Can. Ital. 70)
Clone of Embriachi Casket @ test(3D)
Saami bridegroom
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