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Cabinet - Sources

Saami woman
Image for PRM 1941.8.30
The Bibliophile Jean Grolier (1479-1565)
Image for Jean Grolier bookbinding - Omnia Opera Angeli Politiani (1498)
Displaying ‘kindreds and affinities’
Image for Plate of ‘TABULA VMBELLARVM GENERALIS. cognationes S[ive]: affinitatis’ from Morison’s Plantarum umbelliferarum distributio nova (1672: Tab. 1).
A New Profession
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The growth of the empire, c. 559-500 BC
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 43v
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Star Fort of Palmanova (1593)
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Artillery
Image for A Cannon on a Four-Wheeled Carriage (1582)
John Parkinson's 'Theatrum botanicum' (1640)
Image for Title page of John Parkinson (1640) Theatrum botanicum: the theater of plants. or, An herball of a large extent. London, Printed by Tho. Cotes.
VI.4 The founding event: a university disputation
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Medicinal objects in princely collections
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T3: Silver didrachm in the name of Pixodaros, satrap of Caria (340-335 BC).
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‘Types at the Fair’
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Ewer formed from a Seychelles nut, Prague, 1602
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Alchemy, the Four Elements, and the Tria Prima
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Lateral Wall Gyri Model - Anatomical
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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The first permanent anatomical theatre: Padua, 1594
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Texture of plants
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Laocoon and his Sons
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A Copy of the Convivio (MS Ital. d 5)
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Johann Joachim Winkelmann
Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus
Image for Typical folio of specimens from Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus, mostly labelled in the hand of Jacob Bobart the Younger.
James Hannington - St. Peter's College
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