Cabinet - Sources

Pietro da Cortona, Dying St Alessio (c. 1638)
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William Gilpin, Observations on the River Wye and Several Parts of South Wales (London, 1789)
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Justus Lipsius (1547-1606)
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The mural, or Tychonian, quadrant
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ABC Books for Bukharan Jews (Central Asia)
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Great azimuth semicircle
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Unique prints
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The Indian Institute
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Stupidity
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Clone of A Musket Ball Puller in Dresden
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John Tradescant the Younger with Roger Friend and a Collection of Exotic Shells
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Princess Mary Gift Tin (3D)
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Buff Ware Rhyton from Deve Hüyük
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William Lisle Bowles, Fourteen sonnets (Bath, 1789)
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, April 7, 1915
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Clay Whistle (Tajikistan and Uzbekistan)
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Arabic map: the Maghreb Chart, ca 1325-50
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The Idiot Boy (vol. 1)
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'Catalogus Herbarum ex horto Botanico Oxoniensi' (1676)
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Imser Planetary Clock, ca 1554-61
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Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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Rene Descartes
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De aliis quibusdam Instrumentis nostris
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Astrological tool
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