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Cabinet - Sources

Polish Prayer Book (Kazakhstan)
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Lapis Philosophicus
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The mural, or Tychonian, quadrant
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Saami man
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Invitations - Queenette Club
Recording stories and memories
Lithograph of building at Ornäs
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New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Cartography: the Waldseemüller map, 1507
The four terrestrial elements
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Prague, 1584: Celestial globe clock
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Drawing of a lake
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A cardboard box for concrete poetry
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Transcription: "So Tired."
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Inflow water clock
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The Right to Homestead
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"Achaemenid Bowl" from Deve Hüyük (A)
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The Life of Sir Thomas Browne
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Inscriptions on ritual vessels, 11th century BCE
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Rene Descartes
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A deed box for an unpaid debt to the Bodleian Library
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Dutch Trade Routes
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Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)
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