Cabinet - Sources

‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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University botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Pickled Cucumbers (Kyrgyzstan)
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Philip Stephens and William Browne's 'Catalogus Horti Botanici Oxoniensis' (1658)
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Alchemy, the Four Elements, and the Tria Prima
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The Star-Spangled Banner
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Comparing fruits: carrot family
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Bodleian, MS e. Mus. 19, fol. 165v
Wire-drawing bench, Nuremberg, before 1565
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A kiss from your daddy
Russian egg seller
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Fall of Constantinople, 1453
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Studiolo of Isabella d'Este
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Box in the form of a crab, 16th-17th century
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Souvenir badge from the Bibi-Khanym Mosque
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Hemispherical silver bowl with gold appliqués (BM)
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Parmigianino, Madonna of the Long Neck (1534-1540)
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VI.9 Unintended consequences
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Automaton monk, probably Spanish, ca 1550
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Hooke's Micrographia, 1665
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Perspective Applied: Masaccio, Trinità (c.1426-1428)
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Drawing of pottery vessels and other items
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Zebra print bikini
Clone of Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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