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Cabinet - Sources

The Schools Quadrangle, 1613-24
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Dala Shiypon in Jarqurgon District (Surkhandaryo Viloyat, Uzbekistan)
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The British War Medal
"Harpy" Tomb, c. 480 BC
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Drawing of a saddled reindeer
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Water clocks
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Automata
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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Carta Pisana, ca 1275-1300
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Raphael, The Marriage of the Virgin (1504)
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From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Drawing to printed image: Blephilia
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The newly acquired Gothic coffer
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Çan Sarcophagus, 1st quarter of 4th century BC.
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Polish Prayer Book (Kazakhstan)
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‘Head of Brenese Peasant’
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Bicycle
‘Finnish household’
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Finding the qibla
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Porter's note
Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
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Clone of Jardin des Plantes in Paris (1636)
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French invasion of Italy, 1494
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Theophrastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus (1493-1541)
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