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Cabinet - Sources

II.2 'Universitas': the original meaning of the term
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Cylinder seal with royal hero and Bes figure
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Dresden, 1581: Georg Wecker's polyhedra
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Prague, 1599-1612: The Rudolphine Tables (1627)
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Hooke's microscope
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Philip II of Spain by Titian (1549-1550)
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Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
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BSH8: Silver stater of Soloi (Cilicia), c. 440–420 BC.
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Tycho Brahe's autograph verses of presentation to the Doge of Venice
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Ptolemy World Map, 1482
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Boat on the Kitinen river
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Architectural drawing as craft skill
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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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Gentile Bellini, Procession in Piazza San Marco
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II.1 Where, and what, is the university?
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Wellcome MS 49, fol. 35r
Itinerary
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Portrait of a Saami girl
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Cantino world map (1502)
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Elephant's tooth
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Andrea Pozzo, Ceiling of Sant'Ignazio Church, Rome (1685)
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Saami woman
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Proscholium and its facade, 1610-12
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