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Cabinet - Sources

Religion in the Holy Roman Empire, 1618
'The Flight of the Vestal Virgins,' Biagio di Antonio Tucci
Custom-made phonebook (Kazakhstan)
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Repurposed buildings: churches
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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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The Waldseemüller map, 1507
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Instruments: preserved in the Museo Galileo
V.4 Rhetoric: the art of persuasion
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Tomb of Darius at Naqsh-e Rustam
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Cricket
‘Bosniac Girl of the Possávina’
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The newly acquired Gothic coffer
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Anatomical Theatres
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Plate to print: carrot
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Albert Eckhout, African Woman (1641)
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Compass in Johannes Stradanus's Nova reperta
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Letter from John Wordsworth to his father Revd Wordsworth
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"Harpy" Tomb, c. 480 BC
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Saami bride
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Armillae Zodiacales
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Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
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Night Encounters
Johanninpoika Marataja
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