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Cabinet - Sources

Cartographic table, Nuremberg, c. 1553
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Ottoman Turkish map: fragment of the world map of Piri Reis, 1513
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Title page of Through Bosnia and the Herzegovina on Foot... (1877)
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The Campaigns of the Nabonidus Chronicle
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Молокосторож [и Молоко] (Казахстан)
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The four terrestrial elements
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Saami man
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Towers of the Orders before Merton
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John Parkinson's 'Theatrum botanicum' (1640)
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Queenette’s Dining Club
Imser Planetary Clock, ca 1554-61
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Willem Piso and Georg Marggraf's 'Historia naturalis Brasiliae' (1648)
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Nature
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T29: Silver dishekel, struck at Tyre, c. 430 BC.
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Great steel quadrant, inscribed in a square, also of steel, and revolving in azimuth
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The Tradescant family tomb
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Friar Bacon's Study and Folly Bridge
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Saami cradle
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Morison's 'Sciagraphia'
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Gorytus-tip from Deve Hüyük (BM)
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Plant to printed image: Helichrysum
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Interior of Grote Kerk, Haarlem by Pieter Saenredam
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Clone of Portable Sundials