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Cabinet - Sources

Necklace with acorn pendants from the Lydian Treasure
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Beer glass
Missions to China
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Year Photograph
Portable Sundials
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Johannes Kepler, 'Harmonices Mundi' (1619)
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Astronomical table clock
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Explore the Display Case
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Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’, looking east across the Court
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Seal of Darius I (BM)
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‘Bosnian Belle’
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Architecture: Serlio's Five Books of Architecture, 1537-51
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Fanny the Writer: "Mother Amazed Us All."
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Телефонная книжка (Казахстан)
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Mercator, World Map (1569)
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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T5: Gold stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Robert Hooke, 'Micrographia' (1665)
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Russian woman
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Batells
Revolving azimuth quadrant
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Philology: The Antwerp polyglot, 1568-73
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