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Cabinet - Sources

Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
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IV.4 The method for expounding authorities: the lecture
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Matzah (Kazakhstan)
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, ca 1620
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Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Ulm, 1482)
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A chemise binding
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Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677)
Zuccaro, Doorway to Palazzo Zuccari (1590)
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Princess Mary Gift Tin (3D)
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De aliis quibusdam Instrumentis nostris
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T31: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the Egyptian satrap Sabakes, c.340-333 BC.
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Repurposed buildings: houses, residences, palaces
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Transcription: "So Tired."
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Балаган (Центральная Азия)
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The newly acquired Gothic coffer
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Albrecht Dürer, The Large Piece of Turf, 1503
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Suzan Bushnaq’s Artwork (Uzbekistan)
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History
John Tradescant the Younger with Roger Friend and a Collection of Exotic Shells
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Daniel Sennert (1572-1637)
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Proof, plate editing and print
Image for Proof, published plate and reverse of the copper printing plate of ‘GRAMINA LOLIACEA, DACTYLA, PHALARIS, PANICUM, ijsq[ue] congenera’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 8, Tab. 3). Plants drawn and copper plate engraved
Robert Fludd's Alchemical Philosophy and Medicine
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Aliud instrumentum simile priori
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Giulio Romano, Palazzo del Te, Mantua (1524-1535)
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