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Cabinet - Sources

Medieval European cartography, c. 1280: speculative and symbolic
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Drawing of a warehouse
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Ora et labora
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 41v
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Hooke's microscope, 1665
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Saami mother and child
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Lateral Wall Sulci Model
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Clement VII by Sebastiano del Piombo (c. 1531)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 428)
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Globe cup, Zurich c. 1580–90
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The mariner's astrolabe and Portuguese exploration
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An anatomical landmark: Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Robert Hooke
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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Pope as Antichrist
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Drawing of a woman
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Newton's Alchemical Sublimations
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Tail fat glass jar (Kazakhstan)
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Resettlement Registration Application (Tajikistan)
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Gunpowder Warfare
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Anatomy: a manual art, 1493
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'Tradescant's Orchard' Herbal
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Mystics
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