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Cabinet - Sources

‘Konjica, and Bridge over the Narenta’
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Dante's Canzoniere in Britain
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New medicines, new collections: From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Tradition
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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Aliud instrumentum simile priori
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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Inflow water clock
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‘Outline of Tracery’
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 210, fol. 9r
Queenie Vol. VIII, No. 3
Johann Daniel Mylius (c. 1583–1642)
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Clone of The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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A New Profession
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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The 1727 Reprint of the Giuntina
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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Ашкеназские евреи в Центральной Азии
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Lithograph of Saami fishermen
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Monk automaton, probably Spanish, ca 1550
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T18: Silver siglos, “King half-length” Carradice Type 1.
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Albrecht Dürer, The Large Piece of Turf, 1503
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William Wordsworth, The Prelude (London, 1850)
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