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Cabinet - Sources

Christopher Wren's (1632-1723) plate
Image for Plate of ‘SILIQUOSÆ TETRAPETALÆ, BICAPSULARES, & QUADRICAPSULARES pappescentes & non papp.’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1680: Sect. 3, Tab. 11) sponsored by Christopher Wren (1632-1723).
'Urne-Buriall and The Garden of Cyrus', illustrated by Paul Nash (1932)
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Ivalo valley
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Clone of New plants from the New World
Image for Typical folio of specimens from Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus, mostly labelled in the hand of Jacob Bobart the Younger.
Произведения искусства в семейных интерьерах Ташкента (Узбекистан)
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Детские гольфы (Казахстан)
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Pierre Belon, 'De aquatilibus, Libri duo' (1553)
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New plants from the New World
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Clone of A Musket Ball Puller in Dresden
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18. The astrolabe
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Camera obscura
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Pellets and Industrial Monotowns (Kazakhstan)
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Jaca Bastion Fort, Spain
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Calendrical complications
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Rhinoceros-Horn Cup
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Maps as symbols of power: Gallery of Maps, Vatican Palace, 1580-83
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Iconoclasm in the Low Countries
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John Tradescant the Elder
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The 1532 Venetian Reprint of the Giuntina
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Astrolabe table clock
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A deed box for an unpaid debt to the Bodleian Library
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Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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New-world diseases and treatments
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Ecclesiastical territories, 1648
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