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Cabinet - Sources

David Teniers the Younger, The Alchemist (1643/45)
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Mercator, World Map (1569)
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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Wellcome MS 49, folios 35v-37v
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Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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Russian bread seller
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Mongol Empire in 1290
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Drawing of Lake Hammasjarvi
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Rhodes House, South Parks Road
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Background: Botany in Ancient and Medieval Europe
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Robert Boyle
Thomas Hobbes
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Russian tailor’s apprentices
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Drawing of the Church of Saint Jacob in Hudiksvall
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Grandmother's spindle (Kyrgyzstan)
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Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica cover (in depth)
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T11: Silver stater struck at Tarsos, c. 410-385 BC.
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A Copy of the Convivio (MS Ital. d 5)
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Interior of St Anne's Lutheran Church, Augsburg
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Imser Planetary Clock, ca 1554-61
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The Rise of Renaissance Botany
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Sentimental cards
T8: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Mithrapata of Antiphellos, c. 390-360 BC.
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Botticelli, The Calumny of Apelles (1496-1497)
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