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Cabinet - Sources

Mountains on the moon
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Wellcome MS 49, folios 35v-37v
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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​Boats on the Torne river
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Finnish family
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Dedication to Rudolf II
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Произведения искусства в семейных интерьерах Ташкента (Узбекистан)
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The Savilian Professorships, 1619
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Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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Donum Dei
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Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Imser Planetary Clock, ca 1554-61
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Attic Lekythos from Deve Hüyük
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'Palissy Ware' Dish
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The Bibliophile Jean Grolier (1479-1565)
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V. Schools Quadrangle
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Arcus Bipartitus
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Qaragandy (Kazakhstan)
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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘On the Totem-Post from the Haida Village of Masset...’ (1899)
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university. Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641–1719)
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Fall of Constantinople, 1453
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Thomas Browne, 'Urne-Buriall' (1658)
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Titian, Portrait of Isabella d'Este (c. 1534-1536)
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Gorytus-tip from Deve Hüyük (BM)
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