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Cabinet - Sources

A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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Houses and totem poles in Masset
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Portable Sundials
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Fragment of the Rose Tapestries, wool and silk (1480s)
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T3: Silver didrachm in the name of Pixodaros, satrap of Caria (340-335 BC).
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Swiss Mercenaries
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Letter to John and Christopher Wordsworth from their father
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Collections in the Upper Gallery
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Clone of Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica cover (in depth)
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Relics
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Photo Album 1979 – 1982
The Decrees of the Council of Trent
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Johannes Hevelius, Machina coelestis, 1673: Frontispiece
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Shrunken Glove (3D)
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Macrocosm and microcosm
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Remedy for women
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Astrolabe table clock
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'Median' dagger from Deve Hüyük
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Jaca Bastion Fort, Spain
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Inscriptions on ritual vessels, 11th century BCE
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Plaque with note
Mechanical galleons, Augsburg, ca 1585
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Another parallatic or ruler-instrument which shows the altitudes as well as the azimuths
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5. Mechanical clock
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