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Cabinet - Sources

Ancient Egyptian scarab beetles (c. 3100–525 BC)
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Charter of Queen Philippa (1347)
The Drake Chair - Divinity Schools, Bodleian Library
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Oriel
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Silver 'quasi-phiale' from the Lydian Treasure
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Andrea Palladio, Villa La Rotonda, Vicenza (1567-1585)
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Clone of Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Botticelli, The Calumny of Apelles (1496-1497)
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New plants from the New World
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Willem Piso and Georg Marggraf's 'Historia naturalis Brasiliae' (1648)
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Cartographic table, Nuremberg, c. 1553
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Depictions of the Council of Trent
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Польский молитвенник (Казахстан)
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Pope as Antichrist
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Johanes Stradanus, Nova reperta (1600)
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Tabule astronomice Alfonsi Regis (Venice, 1492)
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T32: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the satrap Mazakes, (?) 331-323 BC (or earlier).
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Thomas Browne, 'Urne-Buriall' (1658)
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John Danvers' plate
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5. Mechanical clock
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 19 1915
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Guercino, Allegory of Painting (c. 1618)
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Monstrances
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 41r
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