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Cabinet - Sources

Paper flowers
Image for Flower corsage, John F. Kennedy (Democratic)
Robert Plot
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Macrocosm and microcosm
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Armillae AEquatoriae maximae
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Astronomical Device (3D)
T17: Silver tetradrachm struck at Tarsos in the name of Alexander the Great, c. 333-327 BC.
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The problem of mobility: Mons Meg, 1449-97
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Gerhard Mercator’s world map of 1569
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Speculum academicum (1638): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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Lodestone and iron nails
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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).
Runic Almanac
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Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
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‘Latin Maiden of Tešanj’
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Transcription: "The Star's Letter Box."
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Поэтический памятник советского постмодернизма (Таджикистан)
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Bernard Palissy (attributed), Oval Platter
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Надгробный камень (Узбекистан)
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Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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BSH10: Silver siglos, probably minted at Sardeis. Mid-late 5th century BC.
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The origin and spread of botanical gardens in European universities
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Quentin Metsys, Diptych of Erasmus of Rotterdam and Pieter Gilles (c. 1517)
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 3
Image for First page of Robert Morison (1699) Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis pars tertia seu Herbarum distributio nova,: per tabulas cognationis & affinitatis ex libro naturae observata & detecta. Oxonii, E theatro Sheldoniano.