Cabinet - Sources

Humanist botany: the case of Dioscorides
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Virgil, Eclogues (Aldus Manutius, 1501)
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Ordering plants
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Lithograph of a bear hunt
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Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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"Homesteads for Women" by Fanny Shepherd.
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Paper in Chinese folk culture
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Anatomical engravings
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BSH11: Silver ingot (ovoid).
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Repurposed buildings: churches
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Tabula Rogeriana
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Casino di San Marco: 'The House of Nature'
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Gaudy 1988
Queen Elizabeth I Bible (3D)
1914 and 1914-1915 Star
The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Christopher Wren's (1632-1723) plate
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Elephant's tooth
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Meydancıkkale
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Seal of Darius I (BM)
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Самовар (РСФСР/Афганистан, ок. 1925)
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New plants from the New World
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Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 399, folios 18r-22r
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