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Cabinet - Sources

Musaeum Tradescantianum, 1656
Printing and the economy: the first paper money
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 254)
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Cinnamon, peppercorns, nutmeg and cloves
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Pierre Gassendi, 'Institutio Astronomica' (1683)
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The moons of Jupiter
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JH3: Silver stater of Thasos, fragment.
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Clement VII by Sebastiano del Piombo (c. 1531)
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, April 14, 1915
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Transcription: "The Star's Letter Box."
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Revolving azimuth quadrant
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‘Bosniac Girl of the Possávina’
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The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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Sidereus Nuncius, 1610
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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Carlo Plato, Armillary Sphere (1588)
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The 1514 Appendix Aldina
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 14 1915
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The surrender of Oxford, May-June 1646
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Drawing of mountains
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Target
From decoration to illustration
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 382)
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Models of Saami women
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