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Cabinet - Sources

Russian women
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‘Head of Slavonian’
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university
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Paper in Chinese folk culture
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Soldier’s Letters
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The Settala Collection, 1666
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Voyages of Zheng He (1405-1433)
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Vannuccio Biringuccio, Pirotechnia (1540)
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Albrecht Dürer, Stag beetle, 1505
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 40v
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Maps as symbols of power: Gallery of Maps, Vatican Palace, 1580-83
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 5, 1915
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BSH19: Fragment of silver sheet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Drawing of a woman
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Titian, Portrait of Isabella d'Este (c. 1534-1536)
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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Man in the Moon
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Christopher Wren's (1632-1723) plate
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From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Helioscope
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‘Bosniac Girl of the Possávina’
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Florey Building
Anatomy theatre as museum
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