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Cabinet - Sources

Multiple ivory balls
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Birth Certificate: Abrasha Levaevich Il’yasov (Uzbekistan)
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Petrus Severinus, Idea medicinae philosophicae, 1571
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The growth of the empire, c. 559-500 BC
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II.1 Where, and what, is the university?
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Wire-drawing bench, Nuremberg, before 1565
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BSH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, c. 450–425 BC.
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Saami man
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The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
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Anatomical Theatres
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Recording stories and memories
Pitt Rivers Museum, looking south-east across the Court
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Sources: nature, reason, experience, and tradition
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Clone of The four terrestrial elements
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BSH2: Silver octadrachm of the Bisaltai (Thrace), fragment, c. 465 BC.
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The Pakhtakhor-79 Monument (Uzbekistan/Ukraine)
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Letter
Male reproductive system
A map of the spread of printing in Europe: where the books are today
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Saami couple
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 114)
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Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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'The Female Vagrant' (vol. 1)
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