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Cabinet - Sources

Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 41v
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Samuel Puchas, Purchas his pilgrimes, vol. 3 (London, 1625)
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Johanninpoika Marataja
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Nabonidus Chronicle (BM)
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Transcription: "Use The Language of Love."
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II.3 'Universitas magistrorum et scholarium’: a self-governing corporation of teachers and students
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Programming and Professors
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Quentin Metsys, Erasmus Medal (1519)
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Trench Art Shell Case (3D)
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Anatomy: Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Missions to Africa
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Dombra of Dina Nurpeisova (Kazakhstan)
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BSH7: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class B””), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Robert Hanley Hall, 14 December 1899
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Botanical Gardens
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BSH15: Silver pennanular bracelet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Letters from Samuel Bodger
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Religion in the Holy Roman Empire, 1618
T27: Silver dishekel, struck at Sidon in the name of the satrap Mazaios, 336/5 BC.
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Stradanus, Distillation (Nova Reperta)
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Albert Eckhout, African Woman (1641)
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Epilogue: 1470 and after
T5: Gold stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Серьги «Самовары»
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