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Cabinet - Sources

Arba (Kazakhstan)
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Rice fields (Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan)
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Book Forms: Bound Volumes
Bodleian, MS Ashmole 210, fol. 9r
Robert Hooke
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Instruments: described in the Saggi
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Thomas Browne, 'Posthumous works' (1712)
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 43v
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The first superintendent: Jacob Bobart the Elder (c. 1599-1680)
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Appendix: 'On architectural structures suitable for astronomical observations', folio 40r
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‘Samovar’ earrings
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Indian Institute
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Drawing of flax being prepared
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University of Helmstedt
Music: printing with movable type, 1501
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Artillery
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‘Roman and Croatian Pottery’
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Jan Treck, Still Life with a Pewter Jug and Two Porcelain Plates (1649)
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William Wordsworth, The Prelude (London, 1850)
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Nabonidus Chronicle (BM)
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BSH5: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment, c. 450–425 BC.
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Statues of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, Canterbury Quadrangle, St John's College
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Receipt for a payment to Robert Hanley Hall, 6 December 1900
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Newton's prism experiment
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