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Cabinet - Sources

Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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Свидетельство о рождении Абраши Леваевича Ильясова (Узбекистан)
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Корона "Тилля Каш" (Кыргызстан)
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Russian wet nurse
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Clone of Pietro Perugino, The Delivery of Keys to St Peter (1481-1482)
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Saxon women
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'Urne-Buriall and The Garden of Cyrus', illustrated by Paul Nash (1932)
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Translation of the Qu'ran by Sayyid Mahmud Tarazi (Uzbekistan/India)
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Interior of St Anne's Lutheran Church, Augsburg
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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The ancient papermaking process
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Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Russian peasant
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Drawing of a mountain
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Pharmacies and Alchemical Laboratories
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Timeline of voyages
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Male reproductive system
Russian men
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The Drake Chair (from 1662)
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Spain and Portugal Demarcation Lines
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Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort's (1630-1715) plate
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Statue of Buddha
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