Cabinet - Sources

Joris Hoefnagel, Insects, c. 1590-1600
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Anatomical engravings
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 420-21)
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Mapping the moon
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Finnish man
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Medieval European cartography, c. 1280: speculative and symbolic
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Drawing of a Bulgarian man
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Urban VIII by Pietro da Cortona (c. 1624-1627)
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Fanny the Writer: "Mother Amazed Us All."
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Glory to Belgium
Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Rembrandt, Self portrait
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Firearms: the earliest European image, 1326-7
Verses to Tycho Brahe by Oliger Rosenkrantz
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Beyond Mainz: The Diaspora of Printing Shops
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Model of the ‘Santa María’, wood and cloth
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Key innovation: the escapement
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Rosso Fiorentino, Elephant Fresco (c. 1536)
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Medicinal objects in princely collections
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Young Hare, 1502
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Unique prints
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Украшения бабушки (Кыргызстан)
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Another parallatic or ruler-instrument which shows the altitudes as well as the azimuths
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