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Cabinet - Sources

Daniel Sennert (1572-1637)
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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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The Rise of Renaissance Botany
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The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Elephant's tooth
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Silver 'quasi-phiale' from the Lydian Treasure
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Instruments: described in the Saggi
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Description of the various parts of the large main building
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Tubeteika (Uzbekistan)
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Mosaic philosophy
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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JH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment.
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The four terrestrial elements
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Canonizing the five orders: Sebastiano Serlio, 1537/1611
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Introduction and Contents
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Mercator, World Map (1569)
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 12 1915
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Pietro da Cortona, Ceiling of Palazzo Barberini, Rome (1633-1639)
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Plaque with note
Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 428)
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Albrecht Dürer, Self-portrait in fur coat, 1500
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Explore the Display Case
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Drawing of a Saami cradle
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