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Cabinet - Sources

'Catalogus Herbarum ex horto Botanico Oxoniensi' (1676)
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Browne's Collection: a 'Cabinet of Rarities'
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Follower of David Teniers the Younger, Alchemist in his Laboratory (early 18th century)
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Sextans Astronomicus Trigonicus
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Funerary monument for John Case
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Book Forms: Bound Volumes
The Waldseemüller map, 1507
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Papal Coin, Boniface VIII
Books on bamboo
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Clone of New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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BSH10: Silver siglos, probably minted at Sardeis. Mid-late 5th century BC.
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Wrought iron bombards, early 15th century
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Night Encounters
Icon of Mahatma Gandhi
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Silver 'quasi-phiale' from the Lydian Treasure
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Turkmen earrings gulak-halka (Turkmenistan)
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Galileo's most decisive telescopic observation: the phases of Venus, 1610-23
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Studiolo of Francesco I: A Renaissance Worldview
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Geographies of collecting
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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The maps of Mao Yuanyi (c. 1621)
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Clone of Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Drawing of a man
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Qaragandy (Kazakhstan)
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