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Cabinet - Sources

Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 382)
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Urban VIII by Pietro da Cortona (c. 1624-1627)
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T17: Silver tetradrachm struck at Tarsos in the name of Alexander the Great, c. 333-327 BC.
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The reception of De motu cordis
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The Idiot Boy (vol. 1)
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Goblet made from a bezoar, Prague c. 1600
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The Houses of Tradescant and Ashmole, South Lambeth
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Introduction
Robert Boyle, Sceptical Chymist, 1661
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The newly acquired Gothic coffer
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Instrumenti eiusdem ut Altitudinibus Capiendis
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Свидетельство о рождении (Казахстан)
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Andrea Pozzo, Ceiling of Sant'Ignazio Church, Rome (1685)
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Bread roll
Drawing of three people
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Cotton scale (Tajikistan)
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Pay book
Angels
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Letter
Russian wet nurse
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Вымпел Невада-Семипалатинск (Казахстан)
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Menus - Queenette Club
Ecclesiastical territories: the palace of the prince-bishop of Würzburg
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T31: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the Egyptian satrap Sabakes, c.340-333 BC.
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