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Cabinet - Sources

Spoon of reindeer antler
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Introduction
August of Saxony by Lucas Cranach jr., 1572
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Week 7: Sites and Sources
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Galileo's first telescopes, 1609-10
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Saami boys
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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The Drake Chair - Divinity Schools, Bodleian Library
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Missions to Japan
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T10: Silver stater struck at Tarsos, c. 420-410 BC.
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Orbis sensualium pictus, 1658
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (print)
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Jaca Bastion Fort, Spain
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Man
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Trench Art Shell Case (3D)
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Types
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Plane dial
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T25: Gold double-daric, “King with bow and spear”. Carradice Type 3.
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Bladder fish
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Printed model to printed image: Senecio
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VI.9 Unintended consequences
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Philip II's El Escorial (1564-1584)
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