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Cabinet - Sources

T15: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of Tarkumuwa, c. 380-370 BC.
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Birth Certificate: Abrasha Levaevich Il’yasov (Uzbekistan)
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Darts
2. Magnetic Compass
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Grandmother's spindle (Kyrgyzstan)
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Carlo Plato, Armillary Sphere (1588)
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 210, fol. 9r
Anatomy theatre as museum
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'The Flight of the Vestal Virgins,' Biagio di Antonio Tucci
Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 392-3)
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Shrapnel paper knife
13. Sugar
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4. Printing
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Anthony Wood (1632-1695) and Postmaster's Hall
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T22: Silver 1/6 siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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Ocelot skull
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Anatomical Theatres
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Alexander VII, by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (after 1650)
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Joris Hoefnagel, Insects, c. 1590-1600
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Medial Wall Sulci Model
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Armillary Sphere
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Saami couple
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The five orders as sets of mathematical proportions: Hans Blum, 1550
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