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Cabinet - Sources

Russian sleigh
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 324)
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Merton College, 1608-10
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Armillary Sphere (from 1613)
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The arts: liberal and mechanical
Image for Hans Burgkmair the Elder, Imperial Eagle with Emblems of the Celtis Society, 1507.
JH6: Silver stater of Paphos (Cyprus).
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Johann Cogler, Lutheran Sacrament of the Altar (1558)
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Unique prints
Image for Proofs (left and centre) and published plate of ‘GRAMEN PANICEUM, ALOPECUROS, GRAMEN ALOPECUROIDES. TYPHOIDES, ET SPARTEUM.’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 8, Tab. 4).
Star Fort of Palmanova (1593)
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Drawing to printed image: Blephilia
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Geber
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VI.6 The Reformation as disputation
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Drawing of Ukonsaari
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Drawing of the church at Piteå
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Texture of plants
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Jacopo Antonio Marcello Presents the Manuscript of Strabo to Rene d'Anjou (1459)
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Instruments: preserved in the Museo Galileo
Wellcome MS 49, folios 35v-37v
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Books on bamboo
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The phases of Venus, 1610-23
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Oldenburg's correspondence
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Bangle