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Cabinet - Sources

Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 164)
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University botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Reimagination
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Crown “Tilla Kash” (Kyrgyzstan)
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court
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Family portraits
Martin Behaim's globe, 1492
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Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town (1666-1679)
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Saami woman and daughter
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Universities, 1400-1650: an introduction
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Birth Certificate: Abrasha Levaevich Il’yasov (Uzbekistan)
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The Cotton Symbol (Uzbekistan)
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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Morisonian Herbarium
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, ca 1620
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Bodleian Library, MS Canon. Ital. 258, fol. 32r
War and Peace in Europe, 1598-1650
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Verses to Tycho Brahe by Oliger Rosenkrantz
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BSH11: Silver ingot (ovoid).
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Oswald Croll, Basilica chymica, 1609
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Lithograph of a Saami market
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Title page of Through Bosnia and the Herzegóvina on Foot... (1876)
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Hussite Wagon-Fort
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Petrus Severinus, Idea medicinae philosophicae, 1571
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