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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).
‘Croat Woman in the Agram Market’
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III.5 Common hierarchies
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The first superintendent: Jacob Bobart the Elder (c. 1599-1680)
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T30: Silver shekel, struck at Tyre, c. 425-394 BC.
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Cataloguing the Physick Garden (1648 and 1658)
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Ptolemy World Map, 1540
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Hven, 1576-97: Tycho Brahe's observatory
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Thomas Hobbes
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Joseph Du Chesne (Quercetanus) (1546-1609)
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‘Samovar’ earrings
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Lithograph of a Swedish man and woman
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Medieval vs early modern fortifications
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JH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment.
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Churches at Sodankylä
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Cells
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Terrestrial longitude
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‘Roman and Croatian Pottery’
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Introduction
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Drawing of a man
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The Right to Homestead
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Looking presidential
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Drawing of pottery vessels and other items
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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