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Cabinet - Sources

Nixon’s the charm
Image for Charm bracelet, Richard M. Nixon (Republican)
Bodleian, MS Ashmole 5, fol. 34v
Robert Hooke, 'Micrographia' (1665)
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Birth Certificate: Abrasha Levaevich Il’yasov (Uzbekistan)
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‘Croatian Pottery’
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14. Oil paint
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Plate to print: carrot
Image for Detail of carrot from plate of ‘UMBELLÆ semine villoso seu hispido donatae.’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 9, Tab. 13), together with the face of the copper plate from which it was printed.
Works of art in family homes in Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
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Haida helmet (3-D)
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Медаль материнства первой степени (Центральная Азия)
Image for Medal of “Motherhood” (Central Asia)
Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Theophrastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus (1493-1541)
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Convocation House, 1634-7
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Fanny's Scales
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BSH16: Half of silver penannular bracelet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Philip II's El Escorial (1564-1584)
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Drawing of pottery vessels and other items
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Invitations - Queenette Club
Francis I Gallery at the Fontainbleau Castle
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Clock with Automated Procession of Bacchus, ca 1580
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Robert Boyle, Sceptical Chymist, 1661
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Saami woman
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (print)
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