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Cabinet - Sources

Clone of Humanist botany: the case of Dioscorides
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From the Bobarts' Herbaria to Morison's Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis (1699)
Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (print)
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Francis I Gallery at the Fontainbleau Castle
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Title page (vol. 2)
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Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, c. 1490
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Fanny's Scales
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Printing and the economy: the first paper money
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Cinnamon, peppercorns, nutmeg and cloves
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Clone of An Orthopaedic Stretcher from the Dresden Kunstkammer
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Peter Mundy, 1634
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Albrecht Dürer, The Large Piece of Turf, 1503
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T14: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the general Pharnabazos, c. 380-373 BC.
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Wenzel Jamnitzer (c.1508-1585), Daphne
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T31: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the Egyptian satrap Sabakes, c.340-333 BC.
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Clone of Jardin des Plantes in Paris (1636)
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Johanes Stradanus, Nova reperta (1600)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 324)
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Swedish woman
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Saami cradle
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Произведение искусства Сюзан Бушнак (Узбекистан)
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Beer glass
Dedication (cont.)
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