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Cabinet - Sources

Finnish family
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Movable type
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Another parallatic or ruler-instrument which shows the altitudes as well as the azimuths
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The 1491 First Edition of Dante's Lyric Poetry
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T6: Silver stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Thomas Millington's (1628-1703) plate
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Clone of Herbal of Leonhard Fuchs (1542)
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Merton College, 1608-10
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Clone of New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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The mariner's astrolabe: derivation and usage
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 40v
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Finding the qibla
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Design of the main buildings of Uraniborg
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Medal of “Motherhood” (Central Asia)
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Baked potato
Virgil, Eclogues (Aldus Manutius, 1501)
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university
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Pierre Gassendi, 'Institutio Astronomica' (1683)
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Lives of Ashkenazi Jews (Polish Citizens) in Central Asia
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Drawing of pottery vessels and other items
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 7 1915
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Fust and Schoeffer in Mainz, 1457-1466
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Anatomical Theatres
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Octagonal pyramid seal with royal hero
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