Cabinet - Sources

Thomas Browne, 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' (1672)
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'Universitas': the original meaning of the term
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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'The Flight of the Vestal Virgins,' Biagio di Antonio Tucci
The Settala Collection, 1666
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Christopher Wren
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Mystics
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 14 1915
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Tycho Brahe's autograph verses of presentation to the Doge of Venice
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Robert Fludd's Alchemical Philosophy and Medicine
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China under the Song Dynasty
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'Greco-Persian' gem: Persian with bird
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Execution of Munster Anabaptists
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Pietro da Cortona, Dying St Alessio (c. 1638)
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The Ming Empire (1368-1644)
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Арба (Казахстан)
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15. Eyeglasses
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Drawing of a clothes shop
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Серьги «Самовары»
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Five sculptural fragments from Persepolis
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A cook in the trenches
The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
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Parmigianino, Madonna of the Long Neck (1534-1540)
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