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Cabinet - Sources

Queen Elizabeth I Feeding the Dutch Cow
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Week 3: Sites and Sources
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Descartes' Discourse (1637)
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Displaying ‘kindreds and affinities’
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A Miscellany Written in Prison (MS Can. Ital. 50)
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Catacomb Saints
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Cushion starfish
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Mentioned in Despatches certificate
VI.1 The Reformation and the universities: continuity or change?
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Robert Hooke, 'Micrographia' (1665)
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Enquiry about a missing soldier
A New Profession
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Clone of Anatomy theatre, Padua, 1594
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Поэтический памятник советского постмодернизма (Таджикистан)
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Medicinal objects in princely collections
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Francis Bacon, c. 1618
Nereid Monument, early 4th century BC.
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 248)
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The Alexander Mosaic.
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Languages
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Philip II's El Escorial (1564-1584)
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Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort's (1630-1715) plate
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Medal of “Motherhood” (Central Asia)
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