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Cabinet - Sources

Colophon, fol. 45v
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T4: Silver tetradrachm struck in western Asia Minor (?), c. 341-334 BC.
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18. The astrolabe
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T27: Silver dishekel, struck at Sidon in the name of the satrap Mazaios, 336/5 BC.
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Joseph Du Chesne (Quercetanus) (1546-1609)
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Brain and ocular system
Дом-музей М.В. Фрунзе, Бишкек (Кыргызстан)
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Pope as Antichrist
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Title page (vol. 2)
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John Tradescant the Elder
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Japanese pillar clock
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Transcription: "Women and Land."
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Synopsis of the statutes of the University of Oxford in broadsheet form (1635)
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Drawing of Johanninpoika Marataja
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План-схема Самарканда (Узбекистан)
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 406-7)
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Drawing of a man
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Robert Boyle, Sceptical Chymist, 1661
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'Universitas': the original meaning of the term
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Childrens' Socks (Kazakhstan)
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Museum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum, 1618: a visual commentary on the Emerald Tablet
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Visitors to the Bodleian
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Happy Birthday