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Cabinet - Sources

Gunpowder Warfare
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Кукла (Казахстан)
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Red-figure krater painted by the "Darius painter", c. 340-320 BC.
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Medicinal objects in princely collections
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Фотография Азамата Алтая и Чингиза Айтматова (США-Кыргызстан)
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Buffalo Bill Cody
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Ptolemy World Map, 1540
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A Commedia with a Lyric Collection (MS Can. Ital. 111)
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The oldest sundials
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New plants, new medicines: tobacco
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Galileo's first telescopes, 1609-10
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Lithograph of Saami items
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (glass negative)
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Melozzo da Forlì, Sixtus IV Appointing Platina as Prefect of the Vatican Library (1477)
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Quadratura circuli (1643): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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Молокосторож [и Молоко] (Казахстан)
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1914 and 1914-1915 Star
BSH7: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class B””), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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The five orders and the five platonic solids: 'Mathematical Model', 1620
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Target
Bodleian, MS e. Mus. 19, fol. 165v
Timeline
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Ordering plants
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, April 28, 1915
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