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Cabinet - Sources

Drawing of Lake Vänern
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Willem Piso and Georg Marggraf's 'Historia naturalis Brasiliae' (1648)
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‘Types at the Fair’
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A Florentine Poetic Anthology (MS Can. Ital. 99)
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Tycho Brahe's autograph verses of presentation to the Doge of Venice
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Swiss Mercenaries
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Plate to print: process
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Rosso Fiorentino, Elephant Fresco (c. 1536)
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History
Via Lucis, 1641-2 / 1668
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Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
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Clone of The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Trumpet
10,000 rouble Banknote of the Turkestan Soviet Republic (1920)
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An experiment in the Accademia del Cimento
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Arba (Kazakhstan)
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Depictions of the Council of Trent
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Medal of “Motherhood” (Central Asia)
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The celestial sphere: the fifth element the geocentric cosmology
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Johannes Kepler, 'Harmonices Mundi' (1619)
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3. Gunpowder
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Dante Scholars in Oxford
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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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16. Terrestrial longitude
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