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Cabinet - Sources

Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
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Shrapnel paper knife
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone’, manuscript on paper, 1800
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Visualizing 'The Movement of the Heart and the Blood in Living Creatures' (1628)
Harvey de motu cordis
The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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New plants, new medicines
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The British War Medal
A fragmented polity
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The Four Voyages of Columbus (1492-1504)
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Title page of Francis Bacon's Instauratio Magna (1620)
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Russian couple
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4. Printing
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Brain and ocular system
Studiolo of Francesco I: Structure
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Morison's 'Sciagraphia'
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New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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Polish Prayer Book (Kazakhstan)
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Hemispherical sundial
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BSH10: Silver siglos, probably minted at Sardeis. Mid-late 5th century BC.
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A Poetic Anthology from the Veneto (MS Can. Ital. 81)
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Sundials
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Чемодан (Казахстан)
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Transcription: "A Year and a Day."
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