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Cabinet - Sources

Rice fields (Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan)
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Medicinal objects in princely collections
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The First Printed Edition of the Vita Nuova, 1576
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BSH2: Silver octadrachm of the Bisaltai (Thrace), fragment, c. 465 BC.
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 41v
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Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Russian sleigh
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The problem of mobility: Mons Meg, 1449-97
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Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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Colophon, fol. 45v
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Saami bride
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Innumerable new stars
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Design of Stjerneborg
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Saami woman
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BSH13: Silver bar-ingot (complete).
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Music: printing with movable type, 1501
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Henry Power, 'Experimental philosophy, in three books' (1664)
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Saami settlement on Lake Hammasjarvi
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Theophrastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus (1493-1541)
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‘Turkish Café, Tesanj’
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A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Silver denarius
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