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Cabinet - Sources

Transitions to print: Virgil, Eclogues (Aldus Manutius, 1501)
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Venice from Nuremberg Chronicle
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Water clocks
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Qaragandy (Kazakhstan)
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Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677)
Drawing to printed image: Blephilia
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Merton College, 1608-10
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'Catalogus Herbarum ex horto Botanico Oxoniensi' (1676)
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Drawing of Mount Bjelašnica
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From the Bobarts' Herbaria to Morison's Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis (1699)
Drawing of a woman
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Alchemical Laboratory
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Ordering plants
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Certificate of purges (Kyrgyzstan)
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The phases of Venus, 1610-23
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Nereid Monument, early 4th century BC.
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Dedication (cont.)
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Supplement regarding the subdivision and dioptre of the instruments
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'Median' dagger from Deve Hüyük
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BSH2: Silver octadrachm of the Bisaltai (Thrace), fragment, c. 465 BC.
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Saami cradle
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Fanny the Writer: "Mother Amazed Us All."
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Drawing of a saddled reindeer
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The uses of the telescope, 1609-10
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