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Cabinet - Sources

Letters from Samuel Bodger
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University botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Fust and Schoeffer in Mainz, 1457-1466
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Ostrich egg
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Missions to India
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The mariner's astrolabe and Portuguese exploration
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna with Four Saints (1505)
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Colantonio, St Jerome in his Study (1444)
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BSH7: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class B””), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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T11: Silver stater struck at Tarsos, c. 410-385 BC.
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Kara-kum Sweets (Central Asia)
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Salamander Detail from Francis I Gallery
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An Orthopaedic Stretcher, ca 1548-85
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Crown “Tilla Kash” (Kyrgyzstan)
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Star Fort of Palmanova (1593)
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 5, 1915
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Family of Sigismund I Jagiellon, c. 1565
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Hugh Robinson's Textbook (1616)
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Theodor de Bry, Mining in Potosí (1596)
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Clone of Anatomy: a manual art
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Robert Hooke, 'Micrographia' (1665)
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A poetic monument to Soviet post-modernism (Tajikistan)
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Medieval European cartography, c. 1280: speculative and symbolic
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BSH9: Silver stater of King Onasi-, Paphos (Cyprus), probably c. 450-420 BC.
Image for BSH9: Silver stater of King Onasi-, Paphos (Cyprus), probably c. 450-420 BC. Kraay and Moorey 1981, no.60. [Obverse]