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Cabinet - Sources

Anatomical engravings
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Thomas Browne, 'Posthumous works' (1712)
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Darius' Red Sea Canal Stele
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 444-5)
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Autograph inscription by Sir Henry Wotton to the Bodleian Library, 15 August 1633
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Raphael, The Marriage of the Virgin (1504)
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Portable Sundials
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From the Bobarts' Herbaria to Morison's Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis (1699)
T16: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the satrap Mazaios, c. 361-333 BC.
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Recording stories and memories
Monographing plants
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Sundials
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Silver denarius
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Cartographic table, Nuremberg, c. 1553
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‘Bulgarian Profile’
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Russian woman
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Коллекция почтовых марок «Народы СССР» (Центральная Азия)
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Follower of David Teniers the Younger, Alchemist in his Laboratory (early 18th century)
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The 1514 Appendix Aldina
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 28 1915
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Harvey's Travels
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Battle of Lützen (6 / 16 November 1632)
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