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Cabinet - Sources

T5: Gold stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Drawing of mountains
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Introduction
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John Evelyn's (1620-1706) plate
Image for Plate of ‘SILIQUOSÆ TETRAPETALÆ BICAPSULARES’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1680: Sect. 3, Tab. 9) sponsored by John Evelyn (1620-1706).
Town and gown: Authentica habita and the Privilegium scholasticum
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Russian couple
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Technological innovation, c. 1580
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Mercator, World Map (1569)
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Lighter
Fust and Schoeffer in Mainz, 1457-1466
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T30: Silver shekel, struck at Tyre, c. 425-394 BC.
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William Gilpin, Observations on the River Wye and Several Parts of South Wales (London, 1789)
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Lateral Wall Gyri Model - Functional
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The mariner's astrolabe and Portuguese exploration
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Thomas Browne, 'Religio Medici' (1644)
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Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Robert Hanley Hall, 11 June 1899
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BSH3: Silver tetradrachm of Akanthos (Chalcidice), fragment, c. 470 BC.
Image for BSH3: Silver tetradrachm of Akanthos (Chalcidice), fragment, c. 470 BC. Kraay and Moorey 1981, no.3 (SNG Ashmolean III 2201). [Obverse]
Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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Title page (vol. 1)
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Russian egg seller
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Morison's 'Sciagraphia'
Image for Title page of Historiae Naturalis Sciagraphia (1720), traditionally attributed to the Jacob Bobart the Younger.
Балаган (Центральная Азия)
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Finnish man
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Wellcome MS 349, fol. 22r