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Cabinet - Sources

Saami couple
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Instrumenti eiusdem ut Altitudinibus Capiendis
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Cabinet for Ferdinand II of Tyrol, c. 1582
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“Rest in peace, for we are awake”: The Iranian Celebrations of 1971.
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Fanny's Scales
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 2
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The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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Alchemical Laboratory
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The Ming Empire (1368-1644)
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The Savilian Professors' Houses, 1672-1854, and Halley's Observatory
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Stele of Xerxes from the Hierothesion of Antiochus I.
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university. Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641–1719)
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5. Mechanical clock
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Prague, 1584: Celestial globe clock
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T11: Silver stater struck at Tarsos, c. 410-385 BC.
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Ecclesiastical territories: the palace of the prince-bishop of Würzburg
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Toward miniaturisation: the Fusee
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Letter: "Homesteads for Women."
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Drawing of Doboj fortress
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William Hogarth - The Analysis of Beauty (1753) Plate 1
Drawing of mountains
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Imser Planetary Clock, ca 1554-61
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Wrought iron bombards, early 15th century
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Repurposed buildings: churches
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