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Cabinet - Sources

Richard of Wallingford's Astronomical Clock
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Drawing of a graveyard
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Ancient Egyptian scarab beetles (c. 3100–525 BC)
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 28 1915
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William Holman Hunt, Study of four Eastern figures (c. 1870)
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Thomas Hariot, A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (Amsterdam, 1590)
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Cylinder seal with royal hero and Bes figure
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"Harpy" Tomb, c. 480 BC
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Clone of Anatomy theatre, Padua, 1594
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T25: Gold double-daric, “King with bow and spear”. Carradice Type 3.
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Lithograph of Saami people
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Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644)
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‘Head of Slavonian’
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Lithograph of Lycksele
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Model of the ‘Santa María’, wood and cloth
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Movable type
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Saami couple
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Terrestrial longitude
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BSH3: Silver tetradrachm of Akanthos (Chalcidice), fragment, c. 470 BC.
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Battle of White Mountain (8 November 1620)
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Armillae AEquatoriae
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Drawing of a Bulgarian man
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Christopher Wren's (1632-1723) plate
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Fanny the Writer: "Mother Amazed Us All."
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