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Cabinet - Sources

Russian women
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Matzah (Kazakhstan)
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The 15th-century printing types
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Cyrus Cylinder from Babylon (BM)
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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Transcription: "So Tired."
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T7: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Kuprlli of Xanthos, c. 480-420 BC.
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Explore the Display Case
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Mercator, World Map (1569)
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The Savilian Professorships, 1619
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Elephant Automaton Clock, Augsburg, 1600-10
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The Bobarts' Herbaria
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Oxford as a Window on Seventeenth-Century Science
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Anatomical models
Drawing of an Alchemical House from Libavius (1606)
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Printing and the economy: the first paper money
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The five orders as sets of mathematical proportions: Hans Blum, 1550
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Lake Suolajarvi
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Male reproductive system
Memphis Customs Account
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Anatomy theatre as museum
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Drawing of pottery vessels and other items
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Harvey's Teacher in Padua: Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente (1537–1619)
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Silver oinochoe with kouros handle from the Lydian Treasure
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