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Cabinet - Sources

Clone of Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Musaeum Calceolarii, 1622
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The four terrestrial elements
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Charter of Queen Philippa (1347)
A box for going to sea?
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Globus Magnus Orichalcicus
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 15 November 1900
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Zheltoqsan (Kazakhstan)
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Hooke's microscope, 1665
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Concrete Fences (Kyrgyzstan)
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Medial Wall Sulci Model
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An Orthopaedic Stretcher, ca 1548-85
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Family of Sigismund I Jagiellon, c. 1565
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Worked in precious threads
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Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione (c.1514-1515)
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Wenzel Jamnitzer (c.1508-1585), Silver writing box
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 14 1915
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Programming and Professors
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Pickled Cucumbers (Kyrgyzstan)
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Joseph Du Chesne (Quercetanus) (1546-1609)
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The Victoria Cross
Clone of Embriachi Casket @ test(3D)
Family portraits