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Cabinet - Sources

JH1: Silver stater of Messana (Sicily), c. 488–481 BC.
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Verses to Tycho Brahe by Oliger Rosenkrantz
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Cyrus Cylinder from Babylon (BM)
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The Savilian Professors' Houses, 1672-1854, and Halley's Observatory
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JH10-JH17: Earrings from the Jordan hoard
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Lithograph of Stockholm
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‘Konjica, and Bridge over the Narenta’
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Two kingfishers
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JH5: Silver diobol of Miletos (Ionia).
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Stomach and digestive system
Столы (Таджикистан)
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Souvenir badge from the Bibi-Khanym Mosque
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John Tradescant Jr in his Garden
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Novum Testamentum Graece (Strasbourg, 1524)
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The key to miniaturisation: the Fusee, early 15th century
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Drawing of mountains
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Elephant Automaton Clock, Augsburg, 1600-10
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Надгробный камень (Узбекистан)
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New plants, new medicines: tobacco
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Danger
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BSH2: Silver octadrachm of the Bisaltai (Thrace), fragment, c. 465 BC.
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Baked potato
Poster "Educate the children to work"
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Philosophers guiding research
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