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Cabinet - Sources

From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking south-east across the Court
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Saami couple
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'Tradescant's Orchard' Herbal
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Henry Compton's (1631/2-1713) plate
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Papal Coin, John XXII
Selden End, 1634-7
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The astrolabe
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Works of art in family homes in Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
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Medicinal objects in princely collections
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Portrait of John Case
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Speculum academicum (1638): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 428)
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Mountains on the moon
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Brain and ocular system
Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528)
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Kurt (Kurut)
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Martin Luther (1483-1546) by Lucas Cranach the Elder
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Richard of Wallingford's Astronomical Clock
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‘Christian Monuments, Tassorić’ / ‘Graveyard at Tassorić’
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Distribution
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Woman and child
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'Universitas': the original meaning of the term
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Japanese 'Inro' Watch
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