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Cabinet - Sources

Statue of Darius from Susa
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Хлопок как символ (Узбекистан)
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Joris Hoefnagel, Insects, c. 1590-1600
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New plants, new medicines: tobacco
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Drawing of a clothes shop
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Trumpet
Galileo's most decisive telescopic observation: the phases of Venus, 1610-23
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Family of Sigismund I Jagiellon, c. 1565
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VI.3 The founder: a university professor
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Russian kitchen-maid
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Examination Papers (1978)
III.4 The Three Higher Faculties: Medicine, Law, and Theology
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Çan Sarcophagus, 1st quarter of 4th century BC.
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
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Hierarchies
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Ostrich egg
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Family portraits
Ribeiro planisphere of 1529
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Cilicia: Sites and Sources
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Lithograph of Stockholm
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Towers of the Orders before Merton
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Proof, plate editing and print
Image for Proof, published plate and reverse of the copper printing plate of ‘GRAMINA LOLIACEA, DACTYLA, PHALARIS, PANICUM, ijsq[ue] congenera’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 8, Tab. 3). Plants drawn and copper plate engraved