Cabinet - Sources

Xerxes and the Persians in "300".
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Rosso Fiorentino, Dead Christ with Angels (1524-1525)
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Ismail al-Jazari's Elephant clock, ca 1200
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John Gerard's 'The herball' (1633)
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The World in 1700
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Clone of Anatomy theatre, Padua, 1594
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Drawing of a Croatian woman
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Models of Saami women
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Stradanus, Distillation (Nova Reperta)
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New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Anatomy theatre as museum
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Pietro Perugino, The Delivery of Keys to St Peter (1481-1482)
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Samuel Puchas, Purchas his pilgrimes, vol. 3 (London, 1625)
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Morisonian Herbarium
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‘Types at the Fair’
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Technological innovation, c. 1580
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Invitations - Queenette Club
Nabonidus Chronicle (BM)
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Johann König, Last Judgement on alabaster, before 1632
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Hven, 1576-97: Tycho Brahe's observatory
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Jacopo Pontormo, The Deposition from the Cross (1525-1528)
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Sundials in 17th-century Oxford
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Plane dial
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