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Cabinet - Sources

Shrapnel paper knife
The King and the Bodleian
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Saami man
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Tail fat glass jar (Kazakhstan)
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‘Mount Bielastica’
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The origin and spread of botanical gardens in European universities
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Ptolemy World Map, 1482
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Plan of Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
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JH7: Silver double-shekel of Tyre (Phoenicia).
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Stupidity
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The Houses of Tradescant and Ashmole, South Lambeth
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking north-east across the Court
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Clone of The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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The Rudolphine Tables (1627)
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Gentile Bellini, Procession in Piazza San Marco
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Cartographic table, Nuremberg, c. 1553
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Val Wyatt
Lives of Ashkenazi Jews (Polish Citizens) in Central Asia
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David Loggan’s ‘Hortus Botanicus' (1675)
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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The oldest sundials
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The Idiot Boy (vol. 1)
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Finnish boatmen
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Comenius's Praeludia, 1637
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