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Cabinet - Sources

The world's earliest dated printed book: The Diamond Sutra, 868 CE
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Oxford's Physick Garden
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Instruments: preserved in the Museo Galileo
Drawing of Doboj fortress
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The Cyrus Cylinder (Again)
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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John Gerard's 'The herball' (1633)
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Jan Treck, Still Life with a Pewter Jug and Two Porcelain Plates (1649)
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Arcimboldo, Rudolf II as Vertumnus (1590-1591)
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Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’, looking east across the Court
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Classical architecture arrives in Oxford, 1599
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Introduction
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Ottoman Turkish map: fragment of the world map of Piri Reis, 1513
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Year Photograph
Gül-yaka (Turkmenistan)
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Корона "Тилля Каш" (Кыргызстан)
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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Popes
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Dedication (cont.)
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1979 offer letter
Gilt silver rhyton (BM)
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Travel authorisation by Arshama
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Printing in Venice
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Portuguese and Spanish Trade Routes
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