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Related content for the gallery "Enlightenment: Natural world"

Related highlight objects

  • A portrait medallion of Carl Linnaeus, by Josiah Wedgwood I and Thomas Bentley
  • Birds of paradise
  • Cape jasmine (Gardenia florida), an engraving
  • Captain Cook's hummingbird nest
  • Fossil ammonites
  • Giovanni Machion, Plants from the garden at Padua, an album
  • Hans Sloane, Natural History of Jamaica, a book
  • Hans Sloane's collection of shells
  • Hans Sloane's specimen tray
  • Jawbone of a mastodon
  • King penguin
  • Marble bust of Hercules
  • Part of a mammoth's jawbone
  • Rocks and minerals from Mount Vesuvius
  • Shells from the collection of Gustavus Brander
  • Skull and lower jaw of an ichthyosaur
  • Skull of a rhinoceros hornbill
  • Snuff box
  • Three tin-glazed earthenware chocolate cups

Related world cultures

  • Enlightenment Europe

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