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Cabinet - Sources

‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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Quadrans Magnus Chalibeus Quadrato Inclusus
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university. Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641–1719)
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Saami settlement on Lake Hammasjarvi
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Bronze phiale from Deve Hüyük
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Japanese pillar clock
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Mapping the moon
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Florey Building
Leo X by Raphael (c. 1518)
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Europe c. 1000 AD
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Repurposed buildings: houses, residences, palaces
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Browne's Collection: a 'Cabinet of Rarities'
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Justus Lipsius (1547-1606)
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Арба (Казахстан)
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Купюра 10 000 рублей Туркестанской Совесткой Республики
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'Urne-Buriall and The Garden of Cyrus', illustrated by Paul Nash (1932)
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Follower of David Teniers the Younger, Alchemist in his Laboratory (early 18th century)
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Chinese books before paper
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Man in the Moon
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Clone of Herbal of Leonhard Fuchs (1542)
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Globe cup, Zurich c. 1580–90
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Erasmus, Title Page of Adagia (1518)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 308)
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