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Cabinet - Sources

Russian man and boy
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Merton College, 1608-10
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Papal Coin, Boniface VIII
Angels
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Xerxes and the Persians in "300".
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Thomas Millington's (1628-1703) plate
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Selden End, 1634-7
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Перевод Дюшена (Таджикистан)
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Wire-drawing bench, Nuremberg, before 1565
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Saami cradle
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II.6 Academic hierarchies
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An anatomical landmark: Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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The newly acquired Gothic coffer
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Title page of Francis Bacon's Instauratio Magna (1620)
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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Studiolo of Francesco I de' Medici: Introduction
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Augsburg cabinet, ca 1650
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Philosophical Transactions, no. 178 (1685)
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Urban VIII by Pietro da Cortona (c. 1624-1627)
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone’, manuscript on paper, 1800
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Queenie Vol. VII, No. 2
Albrecht Dürer, Stag beetle, 1505
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Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town (1666-1679)
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