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Cabinet - Sources

Icon of Mahatma Gandhi
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Exhibition case
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Johannes Hevelius, Machina coelestis, 1673: Frontispiece
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Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Frankfurt, 1598)
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The Campaigns of the Nabonidus Chronicle
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Anatomy theatre as museum
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David Teniers the Younger, The Alchemist (1643/45)
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Origin of coins in the Jordan Hoard
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Selden End, 1634-7
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Saami couple
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Bobart the Younger’s Hortus Siccus
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The oldest sundials
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Ecclesiastical territories: the palace of the prince-bishop of Würzburg
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Alchemy, the Four Elements, and the Tria Prima
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VI.7 The Reformation as lecture
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Photo of Azamat Altay and Chingiz Aitmatov (USA-Kyrgyzstan)
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Apadana audience relief
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Lithograph of a Saami market
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Shrunken Glove (3D)
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Imser Planetary Clock, ca 1554-61
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Letter from Laurence Dunne
Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 406-7)
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BSH12: Silver bar-ingot (cut down).
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