Cabinet - Sources

Bembo Family's Sallust
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Verses in praise of Tycho Brahe by Rudolph Caukerchius, fols. 44v-45r.
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Galileo's most decisive telescopic observation: the phases of Venus, 1610-23
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Studiolo of Isabella d'Este
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Bernard Palissy (attributed), Oval Platter
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Anatomy: a manual art, 1493
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Insects
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Pope Julius II by Raphael (1511)
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Clone of An Orthopaedic Stretcher from the Dresden Kunstkammer
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Letter from Joseph Derbyshire
The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
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Armillae Zodiacales
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Summary chronology of early printing
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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'Tradescant's Orchard' Herbal
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Calligraphy
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Execution of Munster Anabaptists
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‘Outline of Tracery’
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Siege of Constantinople (1453)
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Botanical Gardens
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Secrets of the calendar
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The celestial sphere: the fifth element the geocentric cosmology
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Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, folios 260r-261v
Pietro da Cortona, Dying St Alessio (c. 1638)
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