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Cabinet - Sources

Cornelis Bega, The Alchemist (1663)
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Bobart the Younger’s Hortus Siccus
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Sundials in 17th-century Oxford
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T24: Gold daric, “King with bow and spear”, Carradice Type 3.
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Georg Christoph Stirn, 1638
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Silver "Achaemenid Bowl" (BM)
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From the Bobarts' Herbaria to Morison's Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis (1699)
​Boats on the Torne river
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Photo of Azamat Altay and Chingiz Aitmatov (USA-Kyrgyzstan)
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Clone of San Zeno Wheel (Verona, c. 1450)
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Translation of the Qu'ran by Sayyid Mahmud Tarazi (Uzbekistan/India)
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Portrait of a Saami man
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Delftware Vase, Netherlands, tin-glazed earthenware with underglaze blue decoration (c. 1680)
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Nautilus Cup with Eagle Claw (1526-1575)
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Family of Sigismund I Jagiellon, c. 1565
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'Catalogus Herbarum ex horto Botanico Oxoniensi' (1676)
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Cap Badge
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Johanninpoika Marataja
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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Darius' Red Sea Canal Stele
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11. The Windmill
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The reception of De motu cordis
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Statue of Queen Philippa (3D)
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Flea
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