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Cabinet - Sources

Collections in the Upper Gallery
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Silver and gold phiale from the Lydian Treasure
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Drawing of Johanninpoika Marataja
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V.1 ‘Humanism’: an educational curriculum
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New medicines, new collections: From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Roadshow overview
The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society, 1667
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Entrance Book (3D)
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'Universitas': the original meaning of the term
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Birth certificate (Kazakhstan)
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Studiolo of Francesco I de Medici, 1570-75
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Haida totem pole known as Star House Pole (3-D)
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Church at Tornio
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Bembo Family's Sallust
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Rice fields (Central Asia)
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Rosso Fiorentino, Elephant Fresco (c. 1536)
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Male reproductive system
Depictions of the Council of Trent
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Transcription: "A Year and a Day."
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University botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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John of Sacrobosco, De Sphaera Mundi (Venice, 1490)
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Drawing of a Saami settlement on Lake Hammasjarvi
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Jacopo Antonio Marcello Presents the Manuscript of Strabo to Rene d'Anjou (1459)
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