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Cabinet - Sources

Johann Daniel Mylius (c. 1583–1642)
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Itinerary
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Cabinet for August of Brunswick-Lüneburg, c. 1630
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Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)
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BSH5: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment, c. 450–425 BC.
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Imperial free cities, 1648
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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The Savilian Professorships, 1619
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Printed model to printed image: Mimosa
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Russian servant
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The Cotton Symbol (Uzbekistan)
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T28: Silver sixteenth-shekel, struck at Sidon in the name of the satrap Mazaios, 336/5 BC.
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T8: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Mithrapata of Antiphellos, c. 390-360 BC.
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Glory to Belgium
Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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MS Ashmole 399, folios 14r-15r
Resettlement Registration Application (Tajikistan)
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Gunpowder weapons in 15th-century Korea
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6. Guaiacum and syphilis
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Portuguese and Spanish Trade Routes
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Selden End, 1634-7
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John Tradescant the Younger with Roger Friend and a Collection of Exotic Shells
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Title page
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Medieval European cartography, c. 1280: speculative and symbolic
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