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Cabinet - Sources

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The Life of Sir Thomas Browne
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Туркменские серьги гулак-халка: память о войне и устойчивые традиции (Туркменистан)
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Anatomical engravings
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Silver phiale with inscription of Artaxerxes I (BM)
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The microcosm: The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Saxon woman
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The 1727 Reprint of the Giuntina
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Justus Lipsius (1547-1606)
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna and Child (1488)
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The phases of Venus, 1610-23
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Translating the five orders: John Thorpe, 1601
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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The Bobarts' Herbaria
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Frans Post, A Sugar Mill Driven by a Small River (c.1650-1655)
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Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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Title page (vol. 1)
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Bodleian, MS e. Mus. 19, fol. 165v
Letters Patent of Edward III (1347)
Siege of Constantinople (1453)
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BSH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, c. 450–425 BC.
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Clock with Automated Procession of Bacchus, ca 1580
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Plant to printed image: Helichrysum
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Wenzel Jamnitzer (c.1508-1585), Silver writing box
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