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Cabinet - Sources

Recreation of Ancient Paintings: Botticelli, The Calumny of Apelles (1496-1497)
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The microcosm: The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Robert Fludd's Alchemical Philosophy and Medicine
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Nixon’s the charm
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Porter's note
19. Copper engraving
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Hooke's Micrographia, 1665
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 406-7)
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BSH15: Silver pennanular bracelet, from the Black Sea hoard
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T6: Silver stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Andrea Palladio, Il Redentore Church, Venice (1575-1576)
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Avarice
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'Catalogus Herbarum ex horto Botanico Oxoniensi' (1676)
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Lithograph of a Swedish man and woman
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A satchel for a scholar
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Three Wartime Photos of Usmon Akramov (Tajikistan)
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Thomas McGarry
T25: Gold double-daric, “King with bow and spear”. Carradice Type 3.
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Papal Coin, Boniface VIII
David Loggan’s ‘Hortus Botanicus' (1675)
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Introduction
Queenette’s Dining Club
T12: Silver stater struck at Mallos in the name of the general Tiribazos, c. 384-383 BC.
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"Achaemenid Bowl" from Deve Hüyük (B)
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