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Cabinet - Sources

Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, MS C 54, fol. 41v
Beetles
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Synopsis of the statutes of the University of Oxford in broadsheet form (1635)
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John Calvin (1509-1564)
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Lithograph of church at Umeå
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The Woman Who Did
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Sundials in the Renaissance
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Chinese Trench Art (3D)
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Musaeum Calceolarii, 1622
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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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Haida helmet (3-D)
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 26, 1915
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Mountains on the moon
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Jardin des Plantes in Paris (1636)
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Cilicia: Sites and Sources
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Outflow water clock, ca 1350 BCE
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Dante's Canzoniere in Britain
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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Советская пиала (Узбекистан)
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Stele of Xerxes from the Hierothesion of Antiochus I.
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 392-3)
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