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Cabinet - Sources

A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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Rembrandt, Self portrait
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Wenzel Jamnitzer (c.1508-1585), Daphne
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Saami group
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The microcosm: The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 28 August 1902
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Calendrical complications
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Stomach and digestive system
French invasion of Italy, 1494
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The not so ‘dark side’
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Visualizing 'The Movement of the Heart and the Blood in Living Creatures' (1628)
Harvey de motu cordis
'Urne-Buriall and The Garden of Cyrus', illustrated by Paul Nash (1932)
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The Holy Roman Empire
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Lateral Wall Gyri Model - Anatomical
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The maps of Mao Yuanyi (c. 1621)
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Translocation: the transfer of papermaking to Europe
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 374)
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Alchemy, the Four Elements, and the Tria Prima
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Columbus's lucky mistake: the oldest surviving terrestrial globe, 1492
Lithograph of Saami items
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Medieval Arabic cartography, 1154 CE: sophisticated representation of an expanding world
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 12, 1915
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Chinese books before paper
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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