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Cabinet - Sources

Sundials in antiquity
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Soviet Piala (Uzbekistan)
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 210, fol. 9r
The Tradescant family tomb
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Clone of Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641-1719)
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Interior of St Anne's Lutheran Church, Augsburg
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 200)
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Monstrances
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Indian Institute
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Interior of a Finnish house
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 1
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Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, Augsburg, ca 1625
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Finnish boy
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Churches at Sodankylä
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Browne's Collection: a 'Cabinet of Rarities'
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Memorial to Sir William Jones - University College Chapel
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Astrological tool
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Invitation
Europe c. 1000 AD
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Beyond Mainz: The Diaspora of Printing Shops
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Small quadrant of gilt brass
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