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Cabinet - Sources

Russian woman
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Clone of Herbal of Leonhard Fuchs (1542)
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Commemorative postage stamps with architecture of Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
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Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, fol. 244r
Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 26, 1915
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Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Frankfurt, 1598)
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Joris Hoefnagel, Insects, c. 1590-1600
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Translocation: the transfer of papermaking to Europe
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Russian fruit seller
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Sheldonian Ceiling
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Clone of Bezoar
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Пионерский галстук (Таджикистан)
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Frans Post, A Sugar Mill Driven by a Small River (c.1650-1655)
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Anatomical Theatres
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Medial Wall Sulci Model
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IV.4 The method for expounding authorities: the lecture
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Feuerwerkbuch (mid 15th century)
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Drawing of a Bosnian woman
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The Astronomical Clock of Richard of Wallingford (d. 1336)
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Descartes's correspondence
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Albert Eckhout, African Woman (1641)
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Robert Fludd's Alchemical Philosophy and Medicine
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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