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Cabinet - Sources

Saami man
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Fust and Schoeffer in Mainz, 1457-1466
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Pavilion
Oxford as a Window on Seventeenth-Century Science
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Happy Birthday
Feuerwerkbuch (mid 15th century)
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Clone of A Musket Ball Puller in Dresden
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Male reproductive system
Ghirlandaio, Confirmation of the Franciscan Rule (1485)
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The earliest book printed with movable type (1377)
T1: Silver tetradrachm in the name of Maussollos, satrap of Caria (377-353 BC).
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Prague, 1599-1612: The Rudolphine Tables (1627)
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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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Cornelis Bega, The Alchemist (1663)
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Hierarchies
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BSH3: Silver tetradrachm of Akanthos (Chalcidice), fragment, c. 470 BC.
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Richard Verstegan, Theatrum Crudelitatem Haereticorum Nostri Temporis (1587)
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50 Iranian Rial Banknote of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
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Petrus Severinus, Idea medicinae philosophicae, 1571
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Advancement of Learning (Oxford, 1640)
Украшения бабушки (Кыргызстан)
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking south-east across the Court
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Clone of Anatomy: a manual art
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Danger
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