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Cabinet - Sources

Joseph Du Chesne (Quercetanus) (1546-1609)
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Thomas Browne, 'Religio Medici' (1642)
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Introduction: New inventions, c. 1600
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Erasmus, Title Page of Adagia (1518)
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Week 1: Sites and Sources
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Ceramic vessels, terrapin whistle and greenstone amulets, the Bay Islands, Cocal Period (1000–1530 AD)
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II.6 Academic hierarchies
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Pierre Belon, 'De aquatilibus, Libri duo' (1553)
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The microcosm: The four humours of Galenic medicine
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William Gilpin, Observations on the River Wye and Several Parts of South Wales (London, 1789)
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Queenie Vol. VII, No. 2
Cornelis Bega, The Alchemist (1663)
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Danby Gate, Botanical Garden, 1632-3
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Night Encounters
Ocelot skull
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Drawing of pottery vessels and other items
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Drawing of the interior of a church
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Zebra print bikini
Darts
Drawing of a graveyard
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Studiolo of Francesco I de Medici, 1570-75
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T13: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the general Tiribazos, c. 384-383 BC.
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Хлопковые весы (Таджикистан)
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