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Cabinet - Sources

Winchester College in the 17th Century
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Imperial free cities, 1648
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Henry Compton's (1631/2-1713) plate
Image for Plate of ‘PLANTÆ GALEATÆ VERTICILLATÆ Spicatæ. Betonica, Prunella, Bugula, Coris’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 11, Tab. 5) sponsored by Henry Compton (1631/2-1713).
Soviet Hovli: The standardized single-family house (Uzbekistan)
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Introduction
Headless Virgin and Child statue
Queenie No. 5, Vol. VIII
Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, Augsburg, ca 1625
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Michael Maier (1568–1622)
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Tradition
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Automata
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Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon (England, late 14th century)
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JH2: Silver tetradrachm of Akanthos (Chalcidice), fragment, c. 470 BC.
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Repurposed buildings: houses, residences, palaces
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Thomas Browne, 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' (1672)
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The three perfections: poetry and painting
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Statue of Darius from Susa
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Свидетельство о рождении Абраши Леваевича Ильясова (Узбекистан)
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
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Rudolf II by Hans von Aachen, 1606/8
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Certificates of appreciation (Kazakhstan)
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The astrolabe
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A box to 'kindle therein any fire or flame'?
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'The Flight of the Vestal Virgins,' Biagio di Antonio Tucci