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Cabinet - Sources

Robert Plot
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Globe cup, Zurich c. 1580–90
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Sir Isaac Newton, by Godfrey Keller (1702)
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Samovar (RSFSR/Afghanistan, ca.1925)
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Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 5, fol. 34v
Свидетельство репрессий (Кыргызстан)
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Anatomical models
Mountains on the moon
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking north-east across the Court
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Mercator, World Map (1569)
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Architecture: Serlio's Five Books of Architecture, 1537-51
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John Gerard, The herball or Generall historie of plantes (London, 1597)
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BSH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, c. 450–425 BC.
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Mongol Empire in 1290
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Bead Calculator
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Albrecht Dürer, Stag beetle, 1505
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Dedication to Rudolf II
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Свидетельство о рождении Абраши Леваевича Ильясова (Узбекистан)
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Model of the ‘Santa María’, wood and cloth
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My grandmother’s jewellery
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3. Gunpowder
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