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Cabinet - Sources

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Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus
Image for Typical folio of specimens from Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus, mostly labelled in the hand of Jacob Bobart the Younger.
Wenzel Jamnitzer (c.1508-1585), Silver writing box
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Russian peasant
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Robert Hooke
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Cyrus Cylinder from Babylon (BM)
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Russian women
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Models of Saami men
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Inscriptions on ritual vessels, 11th century BCE
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Carlo Plato, Armillary Sphere (1588)
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Piero della Francesca, Flagellation (c.1455–1460)
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Saami woman and daughter
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Rudolf II by Hans von Aachen, 1606/8
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Letter from Archer Baker to Edward Burnett Tylor, 17 January 1901
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Beyond Mainz: The Diaspora of Printing Shops
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court (stereograph)
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Clement VII by Sebastiano del Piombo (c. 1531)
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"One small step..."
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Christopher Wren's (1632-1723) plate
Image for Plate of ‘SILIQUOSÆ TETRAPETALÆ, BICAPSULARES, & QUADRICAPSULARES pappescentes & non papp.’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1680: Sect. 3, Tab. 11) sponsored by Christopher Wren (1632-1723).
Finnish family
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Домбра Дины Нурпеисовой (Казахстан)
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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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A satchel for a scholar
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