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Cabinet - Sources

Ora et labora
Image for Alchemist's laboratory, Khunrath's Amphitheatrum (detail)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone’, manuscript on paper, 1800
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Cataloguing the Physick Garden (1648 and 1658)
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The Campaigns of the Nabonidus Chronicle
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Mystics
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Frunze Museum, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
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Morison's 'Sciagraphia'
Image for Title page of Historiae Naturalis Sciagraphia (1720), traditionally attributed to the Jacob Bobart the Younger.
Lithograph of antlers and weapons
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Rosso Fiorentino, Elephant Fresco (c. 1536)
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Anatomy theatre as museum
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Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
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Anatomical theatres: Padua, 1594
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Johannes Hevelius, Machina coelestis, 1673: Frontispiece
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Supplement regarding the subdivision and dioptre of the instruments, fol. 44r
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Theodor de Bry, Mining in Potosí (1596)
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking north-east across the Court
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Анкета-заявление на переселение (Таджикистан)
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Santucci's sphere, Florence, 1588-93
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Серьги «Самовары»
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‘Old Castle of Doboj’
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Europe c. 1700
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Cinnamon, peppercorns, nutmeg and cloves
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John Tradescant the Elder
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Divinity School, 1427-83
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