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Cabinet - Sources

Artillery
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Drawing of the Church of Saint Jacob in Hudiksvall
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Inflow water clock
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Опиумная банкнота (Туркестан)
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Dutch Trade Routes
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From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Raphael, The Disputation on the Sacrament (1509-1510)
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Pietro da Cortona, Dying St Alessio (c. 1638)
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Ismail al-Jazari's Elephant clock, ca 1200
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Crucifixion in coral
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Вымпел Невада-Семипалатинск (Казахстан)
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The Rosary
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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Clone of The four terrestrial elements
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531)
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Outflow water clock, ca 1350 BCE
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Peter Mundy, 1634
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The phases of Venus, 1610-23
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Domenico Gargiulo, Piazza del Mercato
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 420-21)
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Roberto Valturio, De re militari (1472)
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Supplement regarding the subdivision and dioptre of the instruments, fol. 44r
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Entrance Book (3D)
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