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Cabinet - Sources

Robert Boyle
Drawing of classical tombstones
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Clone of The four terrestrial elements
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Plant to printed image: Helichrysum
Image for Plant to printed illustration in Helichrysum orientale (Asteraceae). Two dried specimens and a pen-and-ink drawing from the Morison Herbarium (main label in the hand of Jacob Bobart the Younger)
Author's inscription
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Fall of Constantinople, 1453
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Transcription: "Use The Language of Love."
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Suzan Bushnaq’s Artwork (Uzbekistan)
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Gunpowder in the Nova reperta
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Finnish boatmen
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The First 20 Years, 1450-1470: Earliest specimens in print
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Introduction
Medial Wall Gyri Model
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Ecclesiastical territories, 1648
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Five sculptural fragments from Persepolis
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1979 offer letter
Seth Ward
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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BSH7: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class B””), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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Drawing of a clothes shop
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New plants from the New World
Image for Typical folio of specimens from Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus, mostly labelled in the hand of Jacob Bobart the Younger.
Printing in Venice
Image for A map of the location of a number of printing shops operating in Venice, based on archival research
Model of the ‘Santa María’, wood and cloth
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Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
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