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Cabinet - Sources

Petrarch’s Canzoniere and Triumphs with one sonnet attributed to Dante (MS Can. Ital. 70)
Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Clone of The Rise of Renaissance Botany
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Portrait of John Case
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Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university
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Tradition
Image for Michael Maier, Symbola aureae mensae duodecim nationum, 1617: title page
Camera obscura
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Zodiac Man
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Пионерский галстук (Таджикистан)
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Плакат «Приучайте детей к труду» (Кыргызстан)
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Title Page of 12 Articles
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Finnish couple
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William Gilpin, Observations on the River Wye and Several Parts of South Wales (London, 1789)
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BSH7: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class B””), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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Andrea Palladio, Il Redentore Church, Venice (1575-1576)
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna and Child (1488)
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Johannes Hevelius, Machina coelestis, 1673: Frontispiece
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Hemispherical silver bowl with gold appliqués (BM)
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, April 14, 1915
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Town and gown: Authentica habita and the Privilegium scholasticum
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Bernard Palissy (attributed), Oval Platter
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Drawing of a warehouse
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Titian, Portrait of Jacopo Sannazaro (c.1514-1518)
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