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Cabinet - Sources

Saami buildings on Lake Suolajarvi
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Telegrams
The astrolabe
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William Hogarth - The Analysis of Beauty (1753) Plate 1
A cook in the trenches
Johannes Kepler, 'Harmonices Mundi' (1619)
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Interior of St Anne's Lutheran Church, Augsburg
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Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
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Gunpowder Warfare
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Book Forms: Bound Volumes
Domenico Remps, 1690s
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Andrea Pozzo, Ceiling of Sant'Ignazio Church, Rome (1685)
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Chinese Trench Art (3D)
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Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677)
Author's inscription
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, ca 1620
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
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Polish Prayer Book (Kazakhstan)
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Wellcome MS 290, fol. 53v
Domenichino, Triumphal Arch (c. 1609)
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Sextans Astronomicus Trigonicus
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Astronomical tower clocks
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II.1 Where, and what, was the university?
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