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Cabinet - Sources

Sextans Astronomicus Trigonicus
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Thomas Browne, 'Urne-Buriall' (1658)
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Nova reperta: title page
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Drawing of the interior of a Finnish house
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Galileo's first telescopes, 1609-10
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Samuel Puchas, Purchas his pilgrimes, vol. 3 (London, 1625)
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Sphaera civitatis
William Wordsworth, A Guide through the District of the Lakes in the North of England (Kendal, 1835)
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The Cotton Symbol (Uzbekistan)
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Missions to Japan
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T12: Silver stater struck at Mallos in the name of the general Tiribazos, c. 384-383 BC.
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Tetzel as Indulgence Seller
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Sundials in 17th-century Oxford
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The 1491 First Edition of Dante's Lyric Poetry
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Russian egg seller
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Terracotta 'Persian rider' from Al Mina (3D)
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Harvey's Teacher in Padua: Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente (1537–1619)
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Арба (Казахстан)
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Советские ховли: типовой одноквартирный дом (Узбекистан)
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Anabaptism in Early Modern Europe
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Armillae Zodiacales
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Jacopo Antonio Marcello Presents the Manuscript of Strabo to Rene d'Anjou (1459)
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