Cabinet - Sources

Summary chronology of early printing
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Ostrich egg
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Globe cup, Zurich c. 1580–90
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Finnish family
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Adhai-dvipa: Jain diagram of the world
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Entrance Book (3D)
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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The first superintendent: Jacob Bobart the Elder (c. 1599-1680)
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Tubeteika (Uzbekistan)
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Parmigianino, Madonna of the Long Neck (1534-1540)
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Маца (Казахстан)
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The Achaemenids in the Shahnameh
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The four terrestrial elements
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Robert Hooke, 'Micrographia' (1665)
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The Settala Collection, 1666
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Ora et labora
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Saami bride and groom
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Xanthos Trilingual, 337 BC
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Travel authorisation by Arshama
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Oldenburg's correspondence
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Birth certificate (Kazakhstan)
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The Savilian Professors' Houses, 1672-1854, and Halley's Observatory
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