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Cabinet - Sources

Illustrations
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Young Hare, 1502
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Christopher Wren
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The spread of printing in Europe, 1455-1500
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T29: Silver dishekel, struck at Tyre, c. 430 BC.
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Cristoforo Romano, Gold Medal of Isabella d'Este (1495)
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Apadana audience relief
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Cornelis Bega, The Alchemist (1663)
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Spoon of decorated reindeer antler
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 40v
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The world's earliest dated printed book: The Diamond Sutra, 868 CE
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Musaeum Calceolarii, 1622
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Arba (Kazakhstan)
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Letter: "Homesteads for Women."
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BSH6: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class A”), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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Robert Fludd's Alchemical Philosophy and Medicine
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T26: Silver dishekel, struck at Sidon in the name of Tennes, c. 354-348 BC.
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John Danvers' plate
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Drawing of a quern
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 21 1915
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The Life of Sir Thomas Browne
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Polish basket sellers
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Supplement regarding the subdivision and dioptre of the instruments
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VI.4 The founding event: a university disputation
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