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Cabinet - Sources

Cabinet for Ferdinand II of Tyrol, c. 1582
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Qingbai Bowl, Southern Song dynasty, porcelain (12th Century)
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Battle of White Mountain (8 November 1620)
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Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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Dedication to Rudolf II
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Author's inscription
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II.3 'Universitas magistrorum et scholarium’: a self-governing corporation of teachers and students
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Automaton monk, probably Spanish, ca 1550
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Robert Hooke
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BSH1: Silver didrachm of Segesta (Sicily), c. 475–450 BC.
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The Victoria Cross
A box for going to sea?
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Richard Verstegan, Theatrum Crudelitatem Haereticorum Nostri Temporis (1587)
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John Fell's (1625-1686) plate
Image for Plate of ‘PLANTÆ GALEATÆ verticillatis affines capsulis multis granulis refertis’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 11, Tab. 24) sponsored by John Fell (1625-1686).
План-схема Самарканда (Узбекистан)
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Armillae aliae AEquatoriae
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Saami woman
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Tomb of Cyrus at Pasargadae
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 2
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Lunar volvelle
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Astronomical sextant for measuring altitudes
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Clone of New plants from the New World
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Excavated Sarcophagus of Roman Girl, 1485
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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).