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Cabinet - Sources

Quadrans Magnus Chalibeus Quadrato Inclusus
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II.5 'Authentica habita': Academic garments to distinguish town from gown
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The Swedish Empire, 1560-1815
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Albrecht Dürer, The Large Piece of Turf, 1503
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Inscription to Cecil Rhodes - King Edward Street
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Hemispherical silver bowl with gold appliqués (BM)
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V.1 ‘Humanism’: an educational curriculum
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Martin Luther (1483-1546) by Lucas Cranach the Elder
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Thomas Millington's (1628-1703) plate
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Oxford's Physick Garden, 1621
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Behistun relief and inscription
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David Loggan’s ‘Hortus Botanicus' (1675)
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Looking presidential
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Prince Rupert's (1619-1682) plate
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Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 17403, folios 4r-4v
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Petrus Severinus, Idea medicinae philosophicae, 1571
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Plant to printed image: Helichrysum
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Wellcome MS 49, folios 35v-37v
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Sidereus Nuncius, 1610
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The Cyrus Cylinder (Again)
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The Moynaq Canned Fish combine (Uzbekistan)
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Peter Mundy, 1634
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