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Cabinet - Sources

Russian peasant
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Albrecht Dürer, The Large Piece of Turf, 1503
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Spain and Portugal Demarcation Lines
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Mantegna, Saint Sebastian (1456–1457)
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Church at Tornio
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Saami woman
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Interior of a Finnish house
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The Drake Chair - Divinity Schools, Bodleian Library
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Book Forms: Overview
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Cataloguing the Physick Garden (1648 and 1658)
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Armillae AEquatoriae
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Johannes Hevelius, Machina coelestis, 1673: Frontispiece
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Churches at Sodankylä
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Saami couple
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The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
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Alchemy, the Four Elements, and the Tria Prima
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Anatomical engravings
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Караганда (Казахстан)
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Quadrans Magnus Chalibeus Quadrato Inclusus
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Japanese 'Inro' Watch
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Letter to John and Christopher Wordsworth from their father
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VI.7 The Reformation as lecture
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John Parkinson's 'Theatrum botanicum' (1640)
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