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Cabinet - Sources

The four humours
Image for Clone of The Galenic Humours, by Lois Hague, 1991
Beyond Mainz: The Diaspora of Printing Shops
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Duke Humfrey's Library before Bodley
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
Interior of Grote Kerk, Haarlem by Pieter Saenredam
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Title page
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Silver denarius
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«Манас» Орозбакова (Кыргызстан)
Image for Fig 1: Orozbakov’s Manas (Kyrgyzstan)
Spoon of reindeer antler
Image for Spoon 2
Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
Image for A Rolling Ball Clock from the Dresden Kunstkammer
The Star-Spangled Banner
Image for Brooch, Richard M. Nixon (Republican)
Box in the form of a crab, 16th-17th century
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John Fell's (1625-1686) plate
Image for Plate of ‘PLANTÆ GALEATÆ verticillatis affines capsulis multis granulis refertis’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 11, Tab. 24) sponsored by John Fell (1625-1686).
Медаль материнства первой степени (Центральная Азия)
Image for Medal of “Motherhood” (Central Asia)
A New Profession
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Dutch Trade Routes
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Anatomy theatre as museum
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Банка с курдючным жиром (Казахстан)
Image for Tail fat glass jar (Kazakhstan)
Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica cover (in depth)
Image for Andreas Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica (colour)
Descartes' Discourse (1637)
Image for Discours de la methode 1637
Explore the Display Case
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Вымпел Невада-Семипалатинск (Казахстан)
Image for Nevada-Semipalatinsk pennant (Kazakhstan)
Botticelli, The Calumny of Apelles (1496-1497)
Image for Botticelli, The Calumny of Apelles (1496-1497)
Browne's Collection: a 'Cabinet of Rarities'
Image for Érik Desmazières, Portrait of Sir Thomas Browne (2012)