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Cabinet - Sources

Swiss Mercenaries
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Week 3: Sites and Sources
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Title page to part one: Organographia
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, ca 1620
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The reception of De motu cordis
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Robert Hooke, 'Micrographia' (1665)
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Entrance Book (3D)
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Drawing of Lake Hammasjarvi
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Books
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Proof, plate editing and print
Image for Proof, published plate and reverse of the copper printing plate of ‘GRAMINA LOLIACEA, DACTYLA, PHALARIS, PANICUM, ijsq[ue] congenera’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 8, Tab. 3). Plants drawn and copper plate engraved
The Idiot Boy (vol. 1)
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Zuccaro, Doorway to Palazzo Zuccari (1590)
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Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Ulm, 1482)
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Hooke's microscope
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A deed box for an unpaid debt to the Bodleian Library
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Comparing fruits: carrot family
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Jan van Kessel, the Elder, c. 1650-3.
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Apadana tribute reliefs
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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John of Sacrobosco, De Sphaera Mundi (Venice, 1490)
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Quadrans Vetus
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Бетонные заборы (Кыргызстан)
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