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Cabinet - Sources

Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 5, 1915
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Drawing of Johanninpoika Marataja
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg, ca 1585
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Надгробный камень (Узбекистан)
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Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, fol. 244r
Russian women
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T13: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the general Tiribazos, c. 384-383 BC.
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Topography of the island of Hven
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Outflow water clock, ca 1350 BCE
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 41r
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Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
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Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
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Museum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum, 1618: a visual commentary on the Emerald Tablet
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The Schools Quadrangle, 1613-24
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The Danby Gate (Oxford, 1632-3): a portal between two worlds
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Quadrans Magnus Chalibeus Quadrato Inclusus
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Urban VIII by Pietro da Cortona (c. 1624-1627)
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From the Bobarts' Herbaria to Morison's Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis (1699)
Fanny the Writer: "Mother Amazed Us All."
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Anatomy theatre as museum
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BSH5: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment, c. 450–425 BC.
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Genoese territories and trade routes
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Clone of New plants, new medicines
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