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Cabinet - Sources

T28: Silver sixteenth-shekel, struck at Sidon in the name of the satrap Mazaios, 336/5 BC.
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Hugh Robinson's Textbook (1616)
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Introduction
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Shrunken Glove (3D)
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Robert Hooke, 'Micrographia' (1665)
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University botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Map of Assyrian Empire (824 BC and 671 BC)
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Christopher Wren's (1632-1723) plate
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Aliud instrumentum simile priori
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Поэтический памятник советского постмодернизма (Таджикистан)
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Marsilio Ficino, De amore
Arrowheads from Deve Hüyük
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Xylography before typography, 1423 and after
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Rhinoceros-Horn Cup
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5. Mechanical clock
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Writing Systems
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Saami couple
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Хлопковые весы (Таджикистан)
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Explore the Display Case
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Celestial globe clock, Augsburg, 1584
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Types
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Pavilion