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Cabinet - Sources

Emblem 'Am I not a Man and a Brother'?
Anatomy: Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Philosophers guiding research
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 13002, folios 2v-3r
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Astronomical Clock of Su Song (1020-1101)
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Boucher, The Invention of Drawing (18th century)
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​Boats on the Torne river
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Prague, 1599-1612: The Rudolphine Tables (1627)
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Stupidity
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Robert Hooke, 'Micrographia' (1665)
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Santucci's sphere, Florence, 1588-93
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Inscription to Cecil Rhodes - King Edward Street
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Thomas Browne, 'Posthumous works' (1712)
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, April 7, 1915
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Virgil, Eclogues (Aldus Manutius, 1501)
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Urban VIII by Pietro da Cortona (c. 1624-1627)
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Grandmother's spindle (Kyrgyzstan)
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Gorytus-tip from Deve Hüyük (BM)
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William Wordsworth, A Guide through the District of the Lakes in the North of England (Kendal, 1835)
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Izal Toilet Tissue (3D)
Izal Toilet Tissue (3D)
Пионерский галстук (Таджикистан)
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План-схема Самарканда (Узбекистан)
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