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Cabinet - Sources

John Gerard, The herball or Generall historie of plantes (London, 1597)
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Verses in praise of Tycho Brahe by Rudolph Caukerchius, fols. 44v-45r.
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Astrolabe table clock
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‘Croatian Clothes-shop, Agram’
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John Gerard's 'The herball' (1633)
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Augsburg cabinet, ca 1650
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Box in the form of a crab, 16th-17th century
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Bramante, Tempietto (c. 1502)
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Ottoman Turkish map: fragment of the world map of Piri Reis, 1513
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Humanist botany: the case of Dioscorides
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From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Lithograph of men hunting sea lions
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Wellcome MS 49, folios 35v-37v
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Gunpowder Warfare
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 184)
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Invitations - Queenette Club
Professor B F McGuinness
Dante's Canzoniere in Britain
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T7: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Kuprlli of Xanthos, c. 480-420 BC.
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Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528)
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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T32: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the satrap Mazakes, (?) 331-323 BC (or earlier).
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Balagan (Central Asia)
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