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Cabinet - Sources

Universities, 1400-1650: an introduction
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From decoration to illustration
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Prague, 1584: Celestial globe clock
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Mask of a 'Covid Skull'
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T32: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the satrap Mazakes, (?) 331-323 BC (or earlier).
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Russian women
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‘Finnish household’
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Saami child
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Drawing of the interior of a Finnish house
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Samuel Puchas, Purchas his pilgrimes, vol. 3 (London, 1625)
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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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John Parkinson's 'Theatrum botanicum' (1640)
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The Suitcase (Kazakhstan)
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Aristotelianism in Medicine
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Rosso Fiorentino, Elephant Fresco (c. 1536)
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Stomach and digestive system
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 17403, folios 4r-4v
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Çan Sarcophagus, 1st quarter of 4th century BC.
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Rhinoceros-Horn Cup
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (print)
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Water clocks
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MS Ashmole 399, folios 14r-15r
Star Fort of Bourtange, Netherlands (1593)
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Saxon urn
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