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Cabinet - Sources

Nature
Image for Integra naturae speculum artisque imago, 1618
Mechanical galleons, Augsburg, ca 1585
Image for Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
Box in the form of a crab, 16th-17th century
Image for Box in the form of a crab, 16th-17th century
Anatomy: Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Prince Rupert's (1619-1682) plate
Image for Plate of ‘BACCIFERÆ EDULES & NON EDULES SCANDENTES’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1680: Sect. 1, Tab. 1) sponsored by Rupert, prince and count palatine of the Rhine and duke of Cumberland (1619-1682).
Sundials in the Renaissance
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‘Finnish homestead’
Image for House at Sodankylä 1
Javelin-head from Deve Hüyük
Image for Javelin-head from Deve Hüyük
Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
Image for Carlo Plato, Armillary Sphere (1588)
Seth Ward
Image for Seth Ward by Greenhill
Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Ulm, 1482)
Image for Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Ulm, 1482)
Entrance Book (3D)
Image for Entrance Book (3D)
Çan Sarcophagus, 1st quarter of 4th century BC.
Image for Çan Sarcophagus, 1st quarter of 4th century BC. [View 1]
Drawing of Lake Vänern
Image for Drawing of Lake Vänern 1
‘Christian Gravestone’
Image for Engraving of a cross
Astronomical table clock
Image for Astronomical table clock
Hemispherical sundial
Image for Hemispherical sundial
A box to 'kindle therein any fire or flame'?
Image for 'Engraver's Gallery', by Lawrence
Clone of Oxford Physick Garden (1621)
Image for Oxford's Physick Garden (1621)
Michelangelo, Last Judgment (1536-1541)
Image for Michelangelo, Last Judgment (1536-1541)
Anatomy theatre as museum
Image for Anatomy theatre as museum
Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, MS C 54, fol. 41v
Calligraphy
Image for Use of the Brush
Browne's Collection: a 'Cabinet of Rarities'
Image for Érik Desmazières, Portrait of Sir Thomas Browne (2012)