Cabinet - Sources

Camera obscura
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Laocoon and his Sons
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August of Saxony by Lucas Cranach jr., 1572
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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VI.1 The Reformation and the universities: continuity or change?
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I.1. University foundations in Europe, 1400-1800
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Clone of Herbal of Leonhard Fuchs (1542)
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Book Forms: Handscrolls
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Письма солдата (Казахстан)
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Silver denarius
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Самовар (РСФСР/Афганистан, ок. 1925)
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Week 1: Sites and Sources
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Robert Boyle, Sceptical Chymist, 1661
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Japanese 'Inro' Watch
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Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)
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The mural, or Tychonian, quadrant
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Naming plants
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Drawing of a camp-fire
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JH2: Silver tetradrachm of Akanthos (Chalcidice), fragment, c. 470 BC.
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Vitruvius on architecture
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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Bodleian, MS e. Mus. 19, fol. 165v
Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1875)
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