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Cabinet - Sources

Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644)
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", May 5 1915
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Anaphoric water clock, ca 50 BCE
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Drawing of trees
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Statue of Buddha
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Armillary Sphere (from 1613)
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Russian woman
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Recreation of Ancient Paintings: Botticelli, The Calumny of Apelles (1496-1497)
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Spots on the sun, 1612-13
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Oxford's defences, 1644: a garbled map
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T17: Silver tetradrachm struck at Tarsos in the name of Alexander the Great, c. 333-327 BC.
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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John Tradescant Jr in his Garden
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3D scans of rock structures
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Printed model to printed image: Blechnum
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Советская пиала (Узбекистан)
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Florence, 1588-93: Santucci's sphere
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John Knox (1514-1572) - Portraits
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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The mariner's astrolabe: derivation and usage
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Bird feather fan
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Memorial to Sir William Jones - University College Chapel
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Почетные грамоты (Казахстан)
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