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Cabinet - Sources

Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644)
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T28: Silver sixteenth-shekel, struck at Sidon in the name of the satrap Mazaios, 336/5 BC.
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, ff. 42v - 43r
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Background: Botany in Ancient and Medieval Europe
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Zodiac Man
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Portable Sundials
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Saami man
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Transitions to print: Virgil, Eclogues (Aldus Manutius, 1501)
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Dedication (cont.)
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Xerxes and the Persians in "300".
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Ceramic vessels, terrapin whistle and greenstone amulets, the Bay Islands, Cocal Period (1000–1530 AD)
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 41v
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Clone of The spread of botanical gardens outside Italy
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Towers of the Orders before Merton
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna and Child (1488)
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Explore the Display Case
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Printing in Venice
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I.1. University foundations in Europe, 1400-1800
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Promotional Immigration Literature and Ephemera
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Inscription to Cecil Rhodes - King Edward Street
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Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum Cover
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Thomas McGarry
Queen Elizabeth I Feeding the Dutch Cow
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