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Cabinet - Sources

Heinrich Khunrath, 'Ora et Labora' (1609)
Image for Vredemann de Vries, Ora et labora, from Heinrich Khunrath, Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae (1609)
Pharmacies and Alchemical Laboratories
Image for A Chemical Laboratory Behind an Apothecary Shop, 1747
Canonizing the five orders: Sebastiano Serlio, 1537/1611
Image for The Five Orders: Sebastiano Serlio in English (1611)
Russian man
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Philosophers guiding research
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Cabinet for Ferdinand II of Tyrol, c. 1582
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Male reproductive system
Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 2
Image for Title page of the 1715 reprint of Robert Morison (1680) Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis pars secunda seu Herbarum distributio nova,: per tabulas cognationis & affinitatis ex libro naturae observata & detecta. Oxonii, E theatro Sheldoniano.
Clock with Automated Procession of Bacchus, ca 1580
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The Bibliophile Jean Grolier (1479-1565)
Image for Jean Grolier bookbinding - Omnia Opera Angeli Politiani (1498)
II.1 Where, and what, was the university?
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Map of the New World, 1544
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Elephant Automaton Clock, Augsburg, 1600-10
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Телефонная книжка (Казахстан)
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Proscholium and its facade, 1610-12
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A New Profession
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The world's earliest dated printed book: The Diamond Sutra, 868 CE
Image for The first complete, dated book extant: The Diamond Sutra, 868 CE
A box to 'kindle therein any fire or flame'?
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Robert Hooke, 'Micrographia' (1665)
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Silver "Achaemenid Bowl" (BM)
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 7 1915
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Transcription: "Hens Should Cackle All The Winter."
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V.4 Rhetoric: the art of persuasion
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Перевод Корана Саййиддом Махмуд Тарази (Узбекистан/Индия)
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