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Cabinet - Sources

Remedy for women
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Via Lucis, 1641-2 / 1668
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Samuel Puchas, Purchas his pilgrimes, vol. 3 (London, 1625)
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Proof, plate editing and print
Image for Proof, published plate and reverse of the copper printing plate of ‘GRAMINA LOLIACEA, DACTYLA, PHALARIS, PANICUM, ijsq[ue] congenera’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 8, Tab. 3). Plants drawn and copper plate engraved
Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Cartography: the Waldseemüller map, 1507
Musaeum Tradescantianum, 1656
Depictions of the Council of Trent
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Medicinal objects in princely collections
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5. Mechanical clock
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Models of Saami men
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Kano Naizen, Portuguese Carrack in Nagasaki (late 16th-early 17th century)
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Bishops
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IV.5 The method for debating questions: the disputation
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Custom-made phonebook (Kazakhstan)
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Ceramic vessels, terrapin whistle and greenstone amulets, the Bay Islands, Cocal Period (1000–1530 AD)
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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Michelangelo, Last Judgment (1536-1541)
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Fall of Constantinople, 1453
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, April 14, 1915
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Saami couple
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'Like a bundle of thin laths'
Plate to print: process
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Saxon urn
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