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Cabinet - Sources

Clone of Jardin des Plantes in Paris (1636)
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 17403, folios 4r-4v
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BSH14: Silver strip.
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Piazza del Popolo (c. 1662-1681)
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План-схема Самарканда (Узбекистан)
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"One small step..."
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Russian-Tajik Dictionary for Philosophical Terminology (Tajikistan)
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Плакат «Приучайте детей к труду» (Кыргызстан)
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T15: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of Tarkumuwa, c. 380-370 BC.
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Visualizing 'The Movement of the Heart and the Blood in Living Creatures' (1628)
Harvey de motu cordis
Reimagination (Кыргызстан)
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Clone of The four terrestrial elements
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Cabinet for August of Brunswick-Lüneburg, c. 1630
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Room
Anecdote About Homesteading from George Shepherd
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Indian Institute
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Mariner’s astrolabe, Spain, bronze (c. 1600)
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Examination Papers (1978)
Cricket
Anonymous 'Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis' (1648)
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Macrocosm and microcosm
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Johann König, Last Judgement on alabaster, before 1632
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T5: Gold stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Archibald Pitcairne's (1652-1713) plate
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