Cabinet - Sources

Photo of Azamat Altay and Chingiz Aitmatov (USA-Kyrgyzstan)
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Drawing of a graveyard
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Robert Morison (1620-83)
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Medicinal objects in princely collections
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 391(5), fol. 9r
Rubens, Apotheosis of James I (1634)
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Robert Boyle's (1627-1691) plate
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Albert Eckhout, African Woman (1641)
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Alchemical Pestle and Mortar
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Saami cradle
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T16: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the satrap Mazaios, c. 361-333 BC.
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Quentin Metsys, Diptych of Erasmus of Rotterdam and Pieter Gilles (c. 1517)
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Drawing of the interior of a Finnish house
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Folly
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Gunpowder Warfare
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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘On the Totem-Post from the Haida Village of Masset...’ (1899)
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A box for going to sea?
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The mariner's astrolabe: derivation and usage
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New plants from the New World
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 410-11)
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'Tradescant's Orchard' Herbal
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Battle of Lützen (6 / 16 November 1632)
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