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Cabinet - Sources

Theodor de Bry, Mining in Potosí (1596)
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Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica cover (in depth)
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Santucci's sphere, Florence, 1588-93
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Thomas Hobbes
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Collections in the Upper Gallery
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Drawing of Bosnian people
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Gunpowder weapons in 15th-century Korea
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Sundials
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‘Croatian Pottery’
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Drawing of a Saami teacher
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Anatomy: a manual art, 1493
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Collegio Ghislieri, University of Pavia
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Giambologna, The Rape of the Sabine Woman (1582)
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Frans (II) Francken, c. 1620-25
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Voyages of Zheng He (1405-1433)
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university
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Cotton Combines (Tajikistan)
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Анкета-заявление на переселение (Таджикистан)
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The origin and spread of botanical gardens in European universities
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Lithograph of antlers and weapons
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 420-21)
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Books on bamboo
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Fanny's Chickens
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