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Cabinet - Sources

Biblioteca Malatestiana, Cesena
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Philip II's El Escorial (1564-1584)
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university
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Sentimental cards
Church at Tornio
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I.2. College foundations in Oxford and Cambridge, 1249-1878
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Молокосторож [и Молоко] (Казахстан)
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court (stereograph)
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Statue of Darius from Susa
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Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531)
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Shrunken Glove (3D)
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Raphael, School of Athens (1509-1510)
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Mountains on the moon
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Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677)
Map of the New World, 1544
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Crucifix Dial, Adriaan Zeelst (1588)
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Christopher Wren's (1632-1723) plate
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Lithograph of a Swedish man and woman
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Astrolabes: How do they work?
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Drawing of a man
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Harvey's Travels
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Anatomy theatre as museum
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John Parkinson's 'Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris' (1629)
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