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Cabinet - Sources

Michael Maier (1568–1622)
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Florey Building
Artillery
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China under the Song Dynasty
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Ostrich egg
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Серьги «Самовары»
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Pharmacies and Alchemical Laboratories
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Javelin head/arrowhead from Deve Hüyük
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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'Palissy Ware' Dish
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Prague, 1599-1612: The Rudolphine Tables (1627)
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Medium sized azimuth quadrant of brass
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Pietro Perugino, The Delivery of Keys to St Peter (1481-1482)
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Feuerwerkbuch (mid 15th century)
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Statue of Darius from Susa
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Clement VII by Sebastiano del Piombo (c. 1531)
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T31: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the Egyptian satrap Sabakes, c.340-333 BC.
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‘Old Castle of Doboj’
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Elias Ashmole
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Marsilio Ficino, De amore
Robert Morison (1620-83)
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