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Cabinet - Sources

Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Jaca Bastion Fort, Spain
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Polish man
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Tower of the Five Orders, 1613-24
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Rice fields (Central Asia)
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Geographies of collecting
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The Savilian Professorships, 1619
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Cotton scale (Tajikistan)
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The Tradescant family tomb
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Michelangelo, Last Judgment (1536-1541)
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11. The Windmill
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An unlikely duo
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War and Peace in Europe, 1598-1650
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Drawing of classical tombstones
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Dante's Canzoniere in Britain
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Robert Boyle
Japanese pillar clock
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A Poetic Anthology from the Veneto (MS Can. Ital. 81)
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Rosso Fiorentino, Dead Christ with Angels (1524-1525)
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Receipt for a payment to Robert Hanley Hall, 6 December 1900
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Anaphoric water clock, ca 50 BCE
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Bangle
Johanninpoika Marataja
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