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Cabinet - Sources

Thomas Hobbes
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Follower of David Teniers the Younger, Alchemist in his Laboratory (early 18th century)
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Domenico Remps, 1690s
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Bladder fish
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Vatican Library, MS Pal.lat. 1325, fol. 349v
Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 200)
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Globus Magnus Orichalcicus
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Clement VII by Sebastiano del Piombo (c. 1531)
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Prince Rupert's (1619-1682) plate
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Russian mother with children
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Astrolabes: How do they work?
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Alchemical Laboratory
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A deed box for an unpaid debt to the Bodleian Library
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John Wilkins
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Drawing of the interior of a church
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Colantonio, St Jerome in his Study (1444)
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Clay Whistle (Tajikistan and Uzbekistan)
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Missions to Japan
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17. Polishing weapons
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Advert for soap
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Drawing of a Saami cradle
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Turkmen earrings gulak-halka (Turkmenistan)
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 392-3)
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Travel authorisation by Arshama
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