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Cabinet - Sources

Globus Magnus Orichalcicus
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Marsilio Ficino, De amore
Dutch Trade Routes
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Nova reperta: title page
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The terrestrial sphere: the four terrestrial elements
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Biblioteca Malatestiana, Cesena
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Execution of Munster Anabaptists
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Certificate of purges (Kyrgyzstan)
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Clone of Instruments for Dissection
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Nautilus Cup with Eagle Claw (1526-1575)
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Ordinary visitors: evidence of handling
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Map of the New World, 1544
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Plane dial
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Papal Coin, John XXII
Drawing to printed image: Blephilia
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Year Photograph
T13: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the general Tiribazos, c. 384-383 BC.
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The Pakhtakhor-79 Monument (Uzbekistan/Ukraine)
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Eurasia and Africa c. 1025 AD
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The four terrestrial elements
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John Tradescant Jr in his Garden
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Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, c. 1490
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Lithograph of men hunting sea lions
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Inscription to Cecil Rhodes - King Edward Street
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