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Cabinet - Sources

Clone of New plants from the New World
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Johann Daniel Mylius (c. 1583–1642)
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III.1 The university curriculum
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‘Konjica, and Bridge over the Narenta’
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Medieval European cartography, c. 1280: speculative and symbolic
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8. Silk or the silk worm
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The key to miniaturisation: the Fusee, early 15th century
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Saami group
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Lateral Wall Gyri Model - Functional
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VI.2 The overall pattern: matriculations and foundations
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 13002, folios 2v-3r
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 19 1915
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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Santucci's sphere, Florence, 1588-93
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Early Fellows of the Royal Society
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Custom-made phonebook (Kazakhstan)
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Raphael, School of Athens (1509-1510)
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Johann Cogler, Lutheran Sacrament of the Altar (1558)
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William Wordsworth, A Guide through the District of the Lakes in the North of England (Kendal, 1835)
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A nurse's photo album
Spain and Portugal Demarcation Lines
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 40v
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Pickled Cucumbers (Kyrgyzstan)
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 406-7)
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