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Cabinet - Sources

Timekeeping devices
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Verses in praise of Tycho Brahe by Rudolph Caukerchius
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Medial Wall Sulci Model
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Русско-таджикский словарь философской терминологии (Таджикистан)
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Stele of Xerxes from the Hierothesion of Antiochus I.
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Humanist botany: the case of Dioscorides
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking north-east across the Court
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Meydancıkkale
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Sundials in antiquity
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Icon of Mahatma Gandhi
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Transcription: "Hens Should Cackle All The Winter."
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Хлопковые весы (Таджикистан)
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Lateral Wall Gyri Model - Functional
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Collegio Ghislieri, University of Pavia
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Stradanus, Distillation (Nova Reperta)
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Transcription: "A Year and a Day."
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Cabinet for Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, 1632
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Clone of Humanist botany: the case of Dioscorides
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Universities, 1400-1650: an introduction
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13. Sugar
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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Santucci's sphere, Florence, 1588-93
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Abyssinian roll of parchment
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Astrolabes: How do they work?
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