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Cabinet - Sources

Explore the Display Case
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Tower of the Five Orders, 1613-24
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A Copy of the Convivio (MS Ital. d 5)
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The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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Haida Helmet (3D)
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Christopher Wren
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Queenie Vol. VIII, No. 5
Firearms: the earliest European image, 1326-7
Galileo's most decisive telescopic observation: the phases of Venus, 1610-23
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Spain and Portugal Demarcation Lines
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Henry Power, 'Experimental philosophy, in three books' (1664)
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A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 2
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Вымпел Невада-Семипалатинск (Казахстан)
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Ancient Egyptian scarab beetles (c. 3100–525 BC)
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The origin and spread of botanical gardens in European universities
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Three Wartime Photos of Usmon Akramov (Tajikistan)
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Cabinet for Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, 1632
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Male reproductive system
Albrecht Dürer, Stag beetle, 1505
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Albrecht Dürer, The Large Piece of Turf, 1503
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Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione (c.1514-1515)
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Gilt silver rhyton (BM)
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