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Cabinet - Sources

Rubens, Apotheosis of James I (1634)
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Clone of New plants from the New World
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The origin and spread of botanical gardens in European universities
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Recreation of Ancient Paintings: Botticelli, The Calumny of Apelles (1496-1497)
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Saxon woman
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Unique prints
Image for Proofs (left and centre) and published plate of ‘GRAMEN PANICEUM, ALOPECUROS, GRAMEN ALOPECUROIDES. TYPHOIDES, ET SPARTEUM.’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 8, Tab. 4).
Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, ca 1620
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Via Lucis, 1641-2 / 1668
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Women's First (and only) Eight, 1982
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Tomb of Cyrus at Pasargadae
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Title page
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Jacopo Antonio Marcello Presents the Manuscript of Strabo to Rene d'Anjou (1459)
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Harvey's Travels
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V.2 The 'studia humanitatis': what was at stake?
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Произведения искусства в семейных интерьерах Ташкента (Узбекистан)
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Clone of An Orthopaedic Stretcher from the Dresden Kunstkammer
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Anatomy theatre as museum
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The Medieval Worldview
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Thomas Millington's (1628-1703) plate
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Plaque with note
Looking presidential
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Joris Hoefnagel, Insects, c. 1590-1600
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Polish man smoking a pipe
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Frunze Museum, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
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