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Cabinet - Sources

Mercury and Sulphur in Splendor Solis
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Flea
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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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William Wordsworth, The Prelude (London, 1850)
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Siege of Constantinople (1453)
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Recreation of Ancient Paintings: Botticelli, The Calumny of Apelles (1496-1497)
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Eurasia and Africa c. 1025 AD
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‘Types at the Fair’
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 382)
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Saami woman
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Lithograph of a bear hunt
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Sources: nature, reason, experience, and tradition
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A box to 'kindle therein any fire or flame'?
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Donum Dei
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Studiolo of Francesco I: The Fire Wall
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Inscription to Cecil Rhodes - King Edward Street
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Clone of 'Tradescant's Orchard' Herbal
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Finding the qibla
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The Oxford Philosophical Society
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John Tradescant the Elder
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'Greco-Persian' gem: Persian with bird
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Studiolo of Francesco I de' Medici: Introduction
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