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Cabinet - Sources

Writing Systems
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T4: Silver tetradrachm struck in western Asia Minor (?), c. 341-334 BC.
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Background: Botany in Ancient and Medieval Europe
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Boucher, The Invention of Drawing (18th century)
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Russian tailor’s apprentices
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Wenzel Jamnitzer (c.1508-1585), Silver writing box
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Florey Building
Dedication (cont.)
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Finnish family
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Verses to Tycho Brahe by Oliger Rosenkrantz
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Jardin des Plantes in Paris (1636)
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Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Archer Baker, 18 January 1901
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Botanical gardens outside Italy
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 114)
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Коллекция почтовых марок «Народы СССР» (Центральная Азия)
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‘Head of Brenese Peasant’
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Jan Treck, Still Life with a Pewter Jug and Two Porcelain Plates (1649)
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Quadratura circuli (1643): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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Roadshow overview
The Idle Shepherd Boys continued (vol. 2)
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The first image of a Printing Shop
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T20: Silver siglos, “King with bow and spear” Carradice Type 3.
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Tyranny of the Duke of Alva
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Paper flowers
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