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Cabinet - Sources

Books
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Russian bread seller
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Elephant Automaton Clock, Augsburg, 1600-10
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JH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment.
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William Lisle Bowles, Fourteen sonnets (Bath, 1789)
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Finnish boatmen
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Jacopo Antonio Marcello Presents the Manuscript of Strabo to Rene d'Anjou (1459)
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Russian sleigh
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Timekeeping devices
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‘Christian Gravestone’
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Bernard Palissy (attributed), Oval Platter
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Milk Guard [ and Milk ] (Kazakhstan)
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Astrolabe table clock
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Dombra of Dina Nurpeisova (Kazakhstan)
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Enquiry about a missing soldier
The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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Ancient Egyptian scarab beetles (c. 3100–525 BC)
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Astrolabe table clock
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Письма солдата (Казахстан)
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Lithograph of a Swedish man and woman
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Alchemy, the Four Elements, and the Tria Prima
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The Indian Institute
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Cardo