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Cabinet - Sources

Printed model to printed image: Mimosa
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Newton's Alchemical Sublimations
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Goblet made from a bezoar, Prague c. 1600
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Lunar volvelle
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Wellcome MS 49, folios 35v-37v
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Cristoforo Romano, Gold Medal of Isabella d'Este (1495)
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'Urne-Buriall and The Garden of Cyrus', illustrated by Paul Nash (1932)
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‘Mysterious Sepulchres, Podove’
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V.2 The 'studia humanitatis': what was at stake?
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Secrets of the calendar
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Rudolf II by Hans von Aachen, 1606/8
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Attic Lekythos from Deve Hüyük
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Alchemy, the Four Elements, and the Tria Prima
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Queenette’s Dining Club
Grandmother's spindle (Kyrgyzstan)
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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Donum Dei
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A view from Tibet
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The earliest book printed with movable type (1377)
Anatomical videos
Clone of The spread of botanical gardens outside Italy
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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A Renaissance Manuscript (MS Can. Ital. 101)
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The four terrestrial elements
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