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Cabinet - Sources

Prince Rupert's (1619-1682) plate
Image for Plate of ‘BACCIFERÆ EDULES & NON EDULES SCANDENTES’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1680: Sect. 1, Tab. 1) sponsored by Rupert, prince and count palatine of the Rhine and duke of Cumberland (1619-1682).
Agnus Dei
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Augsburg cabinet, ca 1650
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Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Frankfurt, 1598)
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John Evelyn's (1620-1706) plate
Image for Plate of ‘SILIQUOSÆ TETRAPETALÆ BICAPSULARES’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1680: Sect. 3, Tab. 9) sponsored by John Evelyn (1620-1706).
Botanical gardens outside Italy
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Follower of David Teniers the Younger, Alchemist in his Laboratory (early 18th century)
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Quadrans Vetus
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Alchemical Laboratory
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Anatomy theatres
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BSH18: Silver ram's head terminal, from the Black Sea hoard
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New plants, new medicines
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Drawing of Mount Bjelašnica
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (glass negative)
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Trumpet
Title page (vol. 1)
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Studiolo of Francesco I: The Fire Wall
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The Rise of Renaissance Botany
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Explanation of the design of Uraniborg with all its premises
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Sonnets by Dante in a Lyric Miscellany (MS Can. Ital. 65)
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Saami bride
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Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)
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Haida totem pole known as Star House Pole (3-D)
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Studiolo of Francesco I: A Renaissance Worldview
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