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Cabinet - Sources

Nature
Image for Integra naturae speculum artisque imago, 1618
BSH17: Silver jug handles, from the Black Sea hoard
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Conical dial
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Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica cover (in depth)
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New plants from the New World
Image for Typical folio of specimens from Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus, mostly labelled in the hand of Jacob Bobart the Younger.
Johanninpoika Marataja
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Drawing of a Turkish café
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Head of a fly
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Via Lucis, 1641-2 / 1668
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A Poetic Anthology from the Veneto (MS Can. Ital. 81)
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Medieval Arabic cartography, 1154 CE: sophisticated representation of an expanding world
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Finnish boatmen
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Female reproductive system
Курт (Kaзахстан)
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Ordinary visitors: evidence of handling
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T16: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the satrap Mazaios, c. 361-333 BC.
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Sundials in the Renaissance
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Invitation to Freshmen's Dinner
Notes on ‘totemism’ by Edward Burnett Tylor
Image for Tylor Papers, Box 9, Item 9.4r–9.6r
Kepler's Mysterium cosmographicum, 1596
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (print)
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Silver oinochoe with kouros handle from the Lydian Treasure
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Свидетельство о рождении Абраши Леваевича Ильясова (Узбекистан)
Image for Birth Certificate: Abrasha Levaevich Il’yasov (Uzbekistan)
Karaburun Tumulus II, early 5th century BC.
Image for Clone of Clone of Karaburun Tumulus II Painting [Reclining diner]