Cabinet - Sources

Charter of Queen Philippa (1347)
Astronomical Clock, Rostock
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VI.8 Institutionalising humanist philology
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Johann Joachim Winkelmann
Clone of Bezoar
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Key innovation: the escapement
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Armillae Zodiacales
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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Plate to print: process
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Printed model to printed image: Cyclamen
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Browne's Collection: a 'Cabinet of Rarities'
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Anatomical engravings
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‘Samovar’ earrings
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Ptolemy World Map, 1540
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Camera obscura
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A Commedia with a Lyric Collection (MS Can. Ital. 111)
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Gorytus-tip from Deve Hüyük (BM)
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Drawing of a mountain
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Map of Assyrian Empire (824 BC and 671 BC)
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Execution of Levellers, Gloucester Green, 1649
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