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Cabinet - Sources

Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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Mysia: Sites and Sources
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Zodiac Man
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Dutch Trade Routes
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Thomas Hariot, A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (Amsterdam, 1590)
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Drawing of a camp-fire
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
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Galileo's most decisive telescopic observation: the phases of Venus, 1610-23
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'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' manuscript (17th century)
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Kano Naizen, Portuguese Carrack in Nagasaki (late 16th-early 17th century)
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Nereid Monument, early 4th century BC.
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Beyond Mainz: The Diaspora of Printing Shops
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Five sculptural fragments from Persepolis
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Дала-шийпон (Узбекистан)
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Bembo Family's Sallust
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Cabinet for August of Brunswick-Lüneburg, c. 1630
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BSH8: Silver stater of Soloi (Cilicia), c. 440–420 BC.
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VI.6 The Reformation as disputation
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Translating the five orders: John Thorpe, 1601
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Private Lives
5. Mechanical clock
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Sewing machine
Book Forms: Overview
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