Cabinet - Sources

T32: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the satrap Mazakes, (?) 331-323 BC (or earlier).
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Vase made of artillery shell
Donum Dei
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Great steel quadrant, inscribed in a square, also of steel, and revolving in azimuth
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking south-east across the Court
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Drawing of mountains
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«Манас» Орозбакова (Кыргызстан)
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The spread of printing in Europe, 1455-1500
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Bead Calculator
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Мозаика (Казахстан)
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T6: Silver stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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Russian servant
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Johanninpoika Marataja
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Drawing of a Saami cradle
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Prague, 1584: Celestial globe clock
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Anatomical engravings
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Thomas Hobbes
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Turkmen earrings gulak-halka (Turkmenistan)
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Columbus's lucky mistake: the oldest surviving terrestrial globe, 1492
Пионерский галстук (Таджикистан)
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Oldenburg's correspondence
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