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Cabinet - Sources

Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Macrocosm and microcosm
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 40v
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T9: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Perikles of Limyra, c. 390-360 BC.
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'The Female Vagrant' (vol. 1)
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 14 1915
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The problem of mobility: Mons Meg, 1449-97
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BSH13: Silver bar-ingot (complete).
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Ostrich egg
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Persepolis palace complex
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Verses in praise of Tycho Brahe by Rudolph Caukerchius
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BSH19: Fragment of silver sheet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort's (1630-1715) plate
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Queenie Vol. VIII, No. 3
Transcription: "Mother's Hens", May 5 1915
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Gül-yaka (Turkmenistan)
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Анкета-заявление на переселение (Таджикистан)
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Seal of Darius I (BM)
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3. Gunpowder
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BSH7: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class B””), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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The parallatic or ruler-instrument
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Cilicia: Sites and Sources
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Certificate of purges (Kyrgyzstan)
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Hemispherical bowl from Deve Hüyük
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