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Cabinet - Sources

Missions in the Americas
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Harvey's Teacher in Padua: Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente (1537–1619)
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Crucifixion in coral
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Johann Daniel Mylius (c. 1583–1642)
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 391(2), fol. 3r
Custom-made phonebook (Kazakhstan)
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Saami man
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Title page of Francis Bacon's Instauratio Magna (1620)
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Firearms: the earliest European image, 1326-7
Anatomical engravings
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Modelling the movements of the heavens
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Clone of The spread of botanical gardens outside Italy
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An anatomical landmark: Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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Memorial to Sir William Jones - University College Chapel
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Melozzo da Forlì, Sixtus IV Appointing Platina as Prefect of the Vatican Library (1477)
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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Lithograph of Saami herding reindeer
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Heinrich Khunrath (c. 1560–1605)
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Clone of New plants from the New World
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Two kingfishers
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Sonnets by Dante in a Lyric Miscellany (MS Can. Ital. 65)
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