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Cabinet - Sources

Hooke's Micrographia, 1665
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Thomas Browne, 'Posthumous works' (1712)
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Произведение искусства Сюзан Бушнак (Узбекистан)
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Clone of Bezoar
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Heinrich Khunrath (c. 1560–1605)
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Ancient Egyptian scarab beetles (c. 3100–525 BC)
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Domenico Gargiulo, Piazza del Mercato
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Buff Ware Rhyton from Deve Hüyük
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Phoenicia: Sites and Sources
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Thomas Browne, 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' (1672)
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Конфеты Кара-Кум (Центральная Азия)
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Drawing of a Turkish café
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Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531)
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BSH5: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment, c. 450–425 BC.
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Biblioteca Malatestiana, Cesena
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The Houses of Tradescant and Ashmole, South Lambeth
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Russian basket seller
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Polish man smoking a pipe
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V.1 ‘Humanism’: an educational curriculum
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The microcosm: The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Via Lucis, 1641-2 / 1668
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BSH14: Silver strip.
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Dutch Delft Militiamen, 1606-1674
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking north-east across the Court
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