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Cabinet - Sources

Colantonio, St Jerome in his Study (1444)
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Xerxes and the Persians in "300".
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JH8: Silver bar-ingot, cut down to size from a larger bar.
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Clone of New plants, new medicines
Image for Tobacco Plant, from Nicolas Monardes' Historia medicinal (1574)
Quentin Metsys, Erasmus Medal (1519)
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Ora et labora
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William Lisle Bowles, Fourteen sonnets (Bath, 1789)
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Immortal fame
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Бетонные заборы (Кыргызстан)
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BSH6: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class A”), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
Image for BSH6: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class A”), perhaps c. 450–425 BC. Kraay and Moorey 1981, no.25 (SNG Ashmolean IX 233). [Obverse]
Zodiac Man
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The Bobarts' Herbaria
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Doll (Kazakhstan)
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Drawing of a Saami cradle
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Richard of Wallingford's Astronomical Clock
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Henry Power, 'Experimental philosophy, in three books' (1664)
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Philosophical Transactions, no. 178 (1685)
Image for ‘An Explanation of the Cutts of two Porphyry Pillars in Aegypt’, in Philosophical Transactions, no. 178 (London, December 1685)
The Savilian Professorships, 1619
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Drawing of mountains
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Children in uniform
Portrait of a Saami man
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Marshall Refracting Microscope, c. 1715
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T26: Silver dishekel, struck at Sidon in the name of Tennes, c. 354-348 BC.
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Darts