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Cabinet - Sources

Giovanni Bellini, Madonna with Four Saints (1505)
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Virgil, Eclogues (Aldus Manutius, 1501)
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Book Forms: Handscrolls
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Imser Planetary Clock, ca 1554-61
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Ukrainian vyshyvanka shirts in Soviet Pamir (Tajikistan)
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Adhai-dvipa: Jain diagram of the world
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Arrowhead on chain from Deve Hüyük
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Texture of plants
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Winchester College in the 17th Century
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Private Lives
Inflow water clock
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Paper in Chinese folk culture
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VI.3 The founder: a university professor
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Prague Astronomical Clock (1410 onwards)
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Bodleian, MS Digby 81, fol. 128v
Santucci's sphere, Florence, 1588-93
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Nova reperta: title page
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Joan's Short Story
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Robert Hooke, 'Micrographia' (1665)
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Clone of Jardin des Plantes in Paris (1636)
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Examination Papers (1978)
The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)
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