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Cabinet - Sources

Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 43v
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Kurt (Kurut)
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Bladder fish
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Bodleian, MS Digby 81, fol. 128v
The 1491 First Edition of Dante's Lyric Poetry
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Drawing of a window
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An anatomical landmark: Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Multiple ivory balls
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Title page of Francis Bacon's Instauratio Magna (1620)
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Saxon woman
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John Parkinson's 'Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris' (1629)
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Xanthos Trilingual, 337 BC
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T6: Silver stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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Russian man
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Printed model to printed image: Senecio
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Piero della Francesca, Flagellation (c.1455–1460)
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, April 21, 1915
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Hugh Robinson's Textbook (1616)
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Elephant's tooth
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Seal of Darius I (BM)
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Map of the New World, 1544
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Pope as Antichrist
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Crucifix Dial, Adriaan Zeelst (1588)
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