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Cabinet - Sources

Robert Plot
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Clone of Anatomy: a manual art
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Architectural drawing as craft skill
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BSH5: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment, c. 450–425 BC.
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De aliis quibusdam Instrumentis nostris
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Ismail al-Jazari's Elephant clock, ca 1200
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Silver phiale with inscription of Artaxerxes I (BM)
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‘Turkish Café, Tesanj’
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Frankfurt, 1598)
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I. America
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'Universitas': the original meaning of the term
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Lunar cycle
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Naming plants
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Drawing of a Turkish café
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Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione (c.1514-1515)
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Pietro Perugino, The Delivery of Keys to St Peter (1481-1482)
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BSH16: Half of silver penannular bracelet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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Depictions of the Council of Trent
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Medicinal objects in princely collections
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The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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Inscribed oracle bones, 12th century BCE
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Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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