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Cabinet - Sources

Rhinoceros-Horn Cup
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Anonymous 'Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis' (1648)
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The Oxford Crown
Tomb of Cyrus at Pasargadae
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Alchemical Laboratory
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Drawing of Lake Vänern
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The end of the Hundred Years' War, 1453
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Queenie Vol. VII, No. 2
Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, March 31, 1915
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Translating the five orders: John Thorpe, 1601
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Automaton monk, probably Spanish, ca 1550
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Silver oinochoe with kouros handle from the Lydian Treasure
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Alexander VII, by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (after 1650)
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 19, 1915
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Japanese 'Inro' Watch
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Lodestone and iron nails
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Cartography: the Waldseemüller map, 1507
The Swedish Empire, 1560-1815
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BSH14: Silver strip.
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The first superintendent: Jacob Bobart the Elder (c. 1599-1680)
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Ostrich egg
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Tabula Rogeriana
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Small quadrant of gilt brass
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