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Cabinet - Sources

Clone of Instruments for Dissection
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Robert Hooke, 'Micrographia' (1665)
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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Rhodes Building at Oriel College, High Street
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Great steel quadrant, inscribed in a square, also of steel, and revolving in azimuth
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Clone of New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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Bead Calculator
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Mongol Empire in 1290
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Drawing of the Church of Saint Jacob in Hudiksvall
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Drawing of classical tombstones
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Attic Lekythos from Deve Hüyük
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Арба (Казахстан)
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T8: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Mithrapata of Antiphellos, c. 390-360 BC.
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Thomas McGarry
Imser Planetary Clock, ca 1554-61
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Dante's Canzoniere in Britain
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Буквари для бухарсксих евреев (Центральная Азия)
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Tomb of Sharshembii Uulu Abdykadyr (Kyrgyzstan)
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Funerary monument for John Case
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Double pigeon whistle (3-D)
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Natural philosophy and medicine: the Schools Quadrangle
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Ewer formed from a Seychelles nut, Prague, 1602
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