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Cabinet - Sources

Botanical Gardens
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Clone of A Musket Ball Puller in Dresden
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Wellcome MS 290, fol. 52v
Charter of Queen Philippa (1347)
Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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Armillary Sphere (from 1613)
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Canonizing the five orders: Sebastiano Serlio, 1537/1611
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The Decrees of the Council of Trent
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Pioneer scarf (Tajikistan)
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The printing process
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Comparing fruits: carrot family
Image for Plate of ‘TABULA GENERALIS ICONUM SEMINUM UMBELLARUM’ from Morison’s Plantarum umbelliferarum distributio nova (1672: Tab. 1. Icon), sponsored by Peter Mews (1619-1706), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
3. Gunpowder
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The Little Blue Book
Sundials in antiquity
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De Sphera
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Izal Toilet Tissue (3D)
Izal Toilet Tissue (3D)
'Urne-Buriall and The Garden of Cyrus', illustrated by Paul Nash (1932)
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Jacopo Pontormo, The Deposition from the Cross (1525-1528)
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Drawing of the interior of a church
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Columbus's lucky mistake: the oldest surviving terrestrial globe, 1492
Certificate of purges (Kyrgyzstan)
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Dedication (concluded)
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The Slave Trade
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Поэтический памятник советского постмодернизма (Таджикистан)
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