Cabinet - Sources

‘Latin Maiden of Tešanj’
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Islamic calligraphy
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Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Frankfurt, 1598)
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Galileo's most decisive telescopic observation: the phases of Venus, 1610-23
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John Danvers' plate
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Star Fort of Bourtange, Netherlands (1593)
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Alchemy, the Four Elements, and the Tria Prima
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The first permanent anatomical theatre: Padua, 1594
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A map of the spread of printing in Europe
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An experiment in the Accademia del Cimento
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Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica cover (in depth)
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Introduction: New inventions, c. 1600
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna with Four Saints (1505)
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Clone of Herbal of Leonhard Fuchs (1542)
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Drawing of an Alchemical House from Libavius (1606)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 248)
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Collegio Ghislieri, University of Pavia
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Silver oinochoe with kouros handle from the Lydian Treasure
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The four terrestrial elements
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Notes on ‘totemism’ by Edward Burnett Tylor
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Drawing of mountains
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The 1532 Venetian Reprint of the Giuntina
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Tower of the Five Orders, 1613-24
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