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Cabinet - Sources

Churches at Sodankylä
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John Tradescant the Younger with Roger Friend and a Collection of Exotic Shells
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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘On the Totem-Post from the Haida Village of Masset...’ (1899)
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Anatomy theatre as museum
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Introduction
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Immortal fame
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Translation of Duchêne (Tajikistan)
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Thomas Hobbes
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Browne's Collection: a 'Cabinet of Rarities'
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Beer cellar
Bobart the Younger’s Hortus Siccus
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 41v
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Hooke's Micrographia, 1665
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The mural, or Tychonian, quadrant
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Studiolo of Francesco I: A Renaissance Worldview
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Drawing of a warehouse
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Clone of A Musket Ball Puller in Dresden
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Clone of Instruments for Dissection
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Mantegna, Saint Sebastian (1456–1457)
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Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, Augsburg, ca 1625
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Paper in Chinese folk culture
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Looking to the future
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Oxford as a Window on Seventeenth-Century Science
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The Achaemenids in the Shahnameh
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