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Cabinet - Sources

Venice from Nuremberg Chronicle
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Clone of Portable Sundials
Different "Dantes" for the 20th Century
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Lycia: Sites and Sources
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Saami woman
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Clone of Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Bodleian, MS Canon. Misc. 248, fol. 42r
Russian man and woman
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Museum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum, 1618: a visual commentary on the Emerald Tablet
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Finding the qibla
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Chinese Trench Art (3D)
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Martin Behaim's globe, 1492
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Clock with Automated Procession of Bacchus, ca 1580
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Bobart the Younger’s Hortus Siccus
Image for Herbarium specimen labelled ‘Malva hortensis major simplex. Single Hollyhocks’ [Jacob Bobart the Younger’s hand] [modern name: Alcea rosea L. (Malvaceae)] from Bobart the Younger’s Hortus Siccus.
‘Bulgarian Settlement’
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Houses and totem poles in Masset (print)
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Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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The origin and spread of botanical gardens in European universities
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Galileo's most decisive telescopic observation: the phases of Venus, 1610-23
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Stele of Xerxes from the Hierothesion of Antiochus I.
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Alchemical Laboratory
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BSH8: Silver stater of Soloi (Cilicia), c. 440–420 BC.
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Interior of a Finnish house
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The 15th-century printing types
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