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Cabinet - Sources

Itinerary
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Week 7: Sites and Sources
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Pharmacies and Alchemical Laboratories
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (glass negative)
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Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1875)
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Guercino, Allegory of Painting (c. 1618)
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Depictions of the Council of Trent
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Avarice
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Oswald Croll, Basilica chymica, 1609
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Alchemical Laboratory
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," March 31 1915
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The mariner's astrolabe: derivation and usage
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Clone of The spread of botanical gardens outside Italy
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Transcription: "Mrs Shepherd on Poultry."
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Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644)
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Russian women
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Cataloguing the Physick Garden (1648 and 1658)
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Innumerable new stars
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The four humours
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Clone of Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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A satchel for a scholar
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Wellcome MS 49, fol. 35r
Daniel Sennert (1572-1637)
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