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Cabinet - Sources

Map of religious divisions in the Swiss Confederation (1536)
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Почтовые марки с изображениями архитектурных памятников Самарканда (Узбекистан)
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The first superintendent: Jacob Bobart the Elder (c. 1599-1680)
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Mosaic (Kazakhstan)
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Dodo (Raphus cucullatus)
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Prague, 1584: Celestial globe clock
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Russian man and woman
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university
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Cylinder seal with royal hero and Bes figure
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Christopher Wren's (1632-1723) plate
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Title Page of 12 Articles
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Studiolo of Francesco I de Medici, 1570-75
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Sundials in antiquity
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Robert Fludd's Alchemical Philosophy and Medicine
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Kano Naizen, Portuguese Carrack in Nagasaki (late 16th-early 17th century)
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The First Printed Edition of the Vita Nuova, 1576
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10,000 rouble Banknote of the Turkestan Soviet Republic (1920)
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Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society, 1667
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The World in 1700
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‘Bosniac Girl of the Possávina’
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Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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Drawing of the interior of a church
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MS Ashmole 399, folios 14r-15r
Lithograph of building at Ornäs
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