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Cabinet - Sources

John Tradescant the Younger with Roger Friend and a Collection of Exotic Shells
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Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 939 (section 5, verso)
Глиняная свистулька (Узбекистан и Таджикистан)
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Great azimuth semicircle
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Map of Median Empire (c. 600 BC)
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Arabic map: the Maghreb Chart, ca 1325-50
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BSH13: Silver bar-ingot (complete).
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Title page of Francis Bacon's Instauratio Magna (1620)
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Saami man
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 15 November 1900
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'Tradescant's Orchard' Herbal
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Printing in Venice
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Texture of plants
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Calendrical complications
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Lithograph of building at Ornäs
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Drawing of a graveyard
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Lunar volvelle
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T23: Silver 1/32 siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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Mosaic philosophy
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Upper Gallery, 1618-19
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Leo X by Raphael (c. 1518)
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Bramante, Tempietto (c. 1502)
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Bird feather fan
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