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Cabinet - Sources

Giovanni Bellini, Madonna with Four Saints (1505)
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Title page of Francis Bacon's Instauratio Magna (1620)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 200)
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Titian, Portrait of Isabella d'Este (c. 1534-1536)
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The Drake Chair - Divinity Schools, Bodleian Library
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Drawing of a Saami cradle
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Photo Album 1979 – 1982
Studiolo of Isabella d'Este
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John Rose's (1619-1677) plate
Image for Plate of ‘VARIÆ PLANTÆ ADDENDÆ suis GENERIBUS INTERMEDIIS’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1680: Sect. 5, Tab. 36) sponsored by John Rose (1619-1677).
Languages
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Andrea Pozzo, Ceiling of Sant'Ignazio Church, Rome (1685)
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The Bibliophile Jean Grolier (1479-1565)
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T4: Silver tetradrachm struck in western Asia Minor (?), c. 341-334 BC.
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Newton's prism experiment
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Music: printing with movable type, 1501
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Carlo Plato, Armillary Sphere (1588)
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Украинские рубашки-вышиванки на Советском Памире (Таджикистан)
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BSH10: Silver siglos, probably minted at Sardeis. Mid-late 5th century BC.
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Prisoner of War notification
The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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New plants, new medicines
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Menus - Queenette Club
BSH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, c. 450–425 BC.
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Saami boy
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