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Cabinet - Sources

A New Profession
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Коллекция почтовых марок «Народы СССР» (Центральная Азия)
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Tyranny of the Duke of Alva
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 184)
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The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
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Albrecht Dürer, Stag beetle, 1505
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The Waldseemüller map, 1507
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BSH12: Silver bar-ingot (cut down).
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Transcription: "A Year and a Day."
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Elephant Automaton Clock, Augsburg, 1600-10
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Drawing of the Church of Saint Jacob in Hudiksvall
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T19: Silver siglos, “King shooting” Carradice Type 2.
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3D scans of rock structures
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Плакат «Приучайте детей к труду» (Кыргызстан)
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Browne's Collection: a 'Cabinet of Rarities'
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Humanist botany: the case of Dioscorides
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The four humours
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The Astronomical Clock of Richard of Wallingford (d. 1336)
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Philip Stephens and William Browne's 'Catalogus Horti Botanici Oxoniensis' (1658)
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Finnish boatmen
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Ferrante Imperato, 1599
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Quentin Metsys, Erasmus Medal (1519)
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Telegrams
The Savilian Professors' Houses, 1672-1854, and Halley's Observatory
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