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Cabinet - Sources

Joan's Short Story
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Robert Boyle
Brain and ocular system
British Victory Medal
Exhibition case
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Finnish boatmen
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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Heinrich Khunrath (c. 1560–1605)
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 7 1915
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
Biblioteca Malatestiana, Cesena
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Anatomical theatres: Padua, 1594
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Spoon of decorated reindeer antler
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Roberto Valturio, De re militari (1472)
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My grandmother’s jewellery
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Ordering plants
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An unlikely duo
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Clone of The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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The mariner's astrolabe and Portuguese exploration
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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Lunar cycle
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William Wordsworth, The Prelude (London, 1850)
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Writing Systems
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Transcription: "Hens Should Cackle All The Winter."
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