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Cabinet - Sources

Battle of White Mountain (8 November 1620)
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Украинские рубашки-вышиванки на Советском Памире (Таджикистан)
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Automata
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John Danvers' plate
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Boucher, The Invention of Drawing (18th century)
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Cabinet for Ferdinand II of Tyrol, c. 1582
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John Parkinson's 'Theatrum botanicum' (1640)
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Divinity School
Chaplain's Collar
Drawing of a warehouse
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From humanist manuscripts to italic pocketbooks: the Aldine press, 1501
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Oxford's most famous sundial
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Domenico Remps, 1690s
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Муйнакский рыбоконсервный комбинат (Узбекистан)
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Свидетельство о рождении (Казахстан)
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Anaphoric water clock, ca 50 BCE
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Ferrante Imperato, 1599
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Cream seller
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Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644)
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Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, folios 260r-261v
Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Lithograph of Saami people
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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