Cabinet - Sources

An Ethiopian mahdar
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Order in Council (1978)
Brick-stamp from Ur (BM)
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Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644)
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Oxford's defences, 1644: a garbled map
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Nabonidus Chronicle (BM)
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Churches at Sodankylä
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Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach, 1710
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Seal of Darius I (BM)
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Porter's note
Hooke's microscope, 1665
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The world's earliest dated printed book: The Diamond Sutra, 868 CE
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T30: Silver shekel, struck at Tyre, c. 425-394 BC.
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From humanist manuscripts to italic pocketbooks: the Aldine press, 1501
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JH1: Silver stater of Messana (Sicily), c. 488–481 BC.
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Children in uniform
Lighter
Bead Calculator
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Russian fruit seller
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Christopher Wren's (1632-1723) plate
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Heating Source: Hearth
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Petrarch’s Canzoniere and Triumphs with one sonnet attributed to Dante (MS Can. Ital. 70)
Ostrich egg
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