Cabinet - Sources

The Medieval Worldview
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Raphael, School of Athens (1509-1510)
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Five sculptural fragments from Persepolis
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An Ethiopian mahdar
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Gül-yaka (Turkmenistan)
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Automata
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Drawing of Lake Vänern
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Remedy for women
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Russian mother with children
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David Loggan’s ‘Hortus Botanicus' (1675)
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Roberto Valturio, De re militari (1472)
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Astronomical tower clocks, ca 1380-1588
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Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
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Universities, 1400-1650: an introduction
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Thomas Browne, 'Urne-Buriall' (1658)
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Title page to part one: Organographia
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The Oxford Philosophical Society
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From Italy to Germany, 1390: the precondition of the print revolution
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Alchemical Pestle and Mortar
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Islam in the 9th Century
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Notes on ‘totemism’ by Edward Burnett Tylor
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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