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Cabinet - Sources

Beetles
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Medicinal objects in princely collections
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Churches at Sodankylä
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Kano Naizen, Portuguese Carrack in Nagasaki (late 16th-early 17th century)
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The Idiot Boy (vol. 1)
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BSH17: Silver jug handles, from the Black Sea hoard
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The Danby Gate (Oxford, 1632-3): a portal between two worlds
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Ordinary visitors: evidence of handling
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Thomas Browne, 'Religio Medici' (1642)
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Execution of Levellers, Gloucester Green, 1649
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T19: Silver siglos, “King shooting” Carradice Type 2.
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The world's earliest dated printed book: The Diamond Sutra, 868 CE
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Nabonidus Chronicle (BM)
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William Burge and the abolition debate
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court
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The four terrestrial elements
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11. The Windmill
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Lateral Wall Sulci Model
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Drawing of a Saami settlement on Lake Hammasjarvi
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Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica cover (in depth)
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Instrumenti eiusdem ut Altitudinibus Capiendis
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BSH1: Silver didrachm of Segesta (Sicily), c. 475–450 BC.
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Printed model to printed image: Mimosa
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The world's earliest dated printed book (868)
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