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Cabinet - Sources

Crown “Tilla Kash” (Kyrgyzstan)
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Cataloguing the Physick Garden (1648 and 1658)
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The printing process
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Cilicia: Sites and Sources
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Studiolo of Francesco I de' Medici: Introduction
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Paper in Chinese folk culture
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Sir Isaac Newton, by Godfrey Keller (1702)
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Transcription: "Mrs Shepherd on Poultry."
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 43v
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A deed box for an unpaid debt to the Bodleian Library
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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My grandmother’s jewellery
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Europe c. 1700
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Clone of Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Drawing of The Seven Sisters
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Battle of White Mountain (8 November 1620)
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Transcription: "A Year and a Day."
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Russian woman
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Chess-Man
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Pope as Antichrist
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Russian peasant
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BSH17: Silver jug handles, from the Black Sea hoard
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Zuccaro, Doorway to Palazzo Zuccari (1590)
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