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Cabinet - Sources

Sundials in antiquity
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T9: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Perikles of Limyra, c. 390-360 BC.
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Emblem 'Am I not a Man and a Brother'?
Astrolabe table clock
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Drawing of pottery vessels and other items
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Cyrus Cylinder from Babylon (BM)
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Tombstone (Uzbekistan)
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Drawing of an Alchemical House from Libavius (1606)
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Lithograph of a Saami market
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Alchemy, the Four Elements, and the Tria Prima
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Три военные фотографии Усмона Акрамова (Таджикистан)
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An Orthopaedic Stretcher, ca 1548-85
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university. Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641–1719)
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Assyrian relief from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud
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'Like a bundle of thin laths'
Clone of New plants, new medicines
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Rosso Fiorentino, Dead Christ with Angels (1524-1525)
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The Victoria Cross
Letters from Samuel Bodger
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Drawing of a Saami teacher
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Johann König, Last Judgement on alabaster, before 1632
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British Victory Medal
Robert Hooke
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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