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Cabinet - Sources

Конфеты Кара-Кум (Центральная Азия)
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Johannes Kepler, 'Harmonices Mundi' (1619)
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Cream seller
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Comparing fruits: carrot family
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A Miscellany Written in Prison (MS Can. Ital. 50)
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Background: Botany in Ancient and Medieval Europe
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Printed model to printed image: Cyclamen
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Çan Sarcophagus, 1st quarter of 4th century BC.
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Russian men
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Russian women
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Francis Bacon at 17 years of age, 1578
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'Median' dagger from Deve Hüyük
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Letter from Archer Baker to Edward Burnett Tylor, 17 January 1901
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Recording stories and memories
Cantino world map (1502)
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Globe cup, Zurich c. 1580–90
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3D scans of rock structures
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Seal of Darius I (BM)
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Plate to print: carrot
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Anatomy: Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Quadratura circuli (1643): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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V.3 Grammar: a window on the ancient world
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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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