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Cabinet - Sources

Apadana tribute reliefs
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Lithograph of Stockholm
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Female reproductive system
Rosso Fiorentino, Dead Christ with Angels (1524-1525)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 308)
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The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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Donum Dei
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Anatomy: a manual art, 1493
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Philosophical Transactions, no. 178 (1685)
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
Russian men
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19. Copper engraving
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Francis I Gallery at the Fontainbleau Castle
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Clock with Automated Procession of Bacchus, ca 1580
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Wenzel Jamnitzer (c.1508-1585), Daphne
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Jan Mostaert, Landscape with an Episode from the Conquest of America (c. 1535)
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Hooke's microscope, 1665
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Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society, 1667
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James Hannington - St. Peter's College
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Astronomical tower clocks, ca 1380-1588
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Sphaera civitatis
'Palissy Ware' Dish
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Plate to print: process
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Alchemical Pestle and Mortar
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