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Cabinet - Sources

The reception of De motu cordis
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New medicines, new collections: From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Orozbakov’s Manas (Kyrgyzstan)
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Lithograph of Saami fishermen
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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Introduction
Mausoleum of Hadrian
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Medieval Arabic cartography, 1154 CE: sophisticated representation of an expanding world
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Portuguese and Spanish Trade Routes
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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Drawing of classical tombstones
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Musaeum Calceolarii, 1622
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Ашкеназские евреи в Центральной Азии
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'Star forts', 'gunpowder fortifications', and the 'trace italienne'
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 3
Image for First page of Robert Morison (1699) Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis pars tertia seu Herbarum distributio nova,: per tabulas cognationis & affinitatis ex libro naturae observata & detecta. Oxonii, E theatro Sheldoniano.
Follower of David Teniers the Younger, Alchemist in his Laboratory (early 18th century)
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Week 6: Sites and Sources
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Drawing of three people
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 12 1915
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T13: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the general Tiribazos, c. 384-383 BC.
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Meydancıkkale
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Exhibition case
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Jan van der Straet, The Alchemist's Laboratory (1570)
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Saami group
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