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Cabinet - Sources

Guercino, Allegory of Painting (c. 1618)
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BSH1: Silver didrachm of Segesta (Sicily), c. 475–450 BC.
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Nevada-Semipalatinsk pennant (Kazakhstan)
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Oxford as a Window on Seventeenth-Century Science
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Drawing of flax being prepared
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Star Fort of Bourtange, Netherlands (1593)
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Glory to Belgium
Women's First (and only) Eight, 1982
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Queenie Vol. VI, No. 1
Cantino world map (1502)
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Imser Planetary Clock, ca 1554-61
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Purpose
Finnish family
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Firearms: the earliest European image, 1326-7
Anatomy theatre as museum
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Железорудные окатыши и индустриальные моногорода (Казахстан)
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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Target
Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Arcimboldo, Rudolf II as Vertumnus (1590-1591)
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Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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Pietro da Cortona, Ceiling of Palazzo Barberini, Rome (1633-1639)
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The end of the Hundred Years' War, 1453
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