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Cabinet - Sources

The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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Pietro da Cortona, Dying St Alessio (c. 1638)
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Timeline of voyages
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BSH1: Silver didrachm of Segesta (Sicily), c. 475–450 BC.
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Columbus's lucky mistake: the oldest surviving terrestrial globe, 1492
Rene Descartes
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T32: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the satrap Mazakes, (?) 331-323 BC (or earlier).
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50 Iranian Rial Banknote of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
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De Sphera
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Letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Henry Balfour, 21 November 1901
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Three-pillared compound microscope, 1760s
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Childrens' Socks (Kazakhstan)
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The New St Peter's Basilica
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Ecclesiastical territories, 1648
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David Loggan’s ‘Hortus Botanicus' (1675)
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Convocation House, 1634-7
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Russian peasant
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Man in the Moon
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«Манас» Орозбакова (Кыргызстан)
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Missions to China
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Queenie Vol. VI, No. 1
Week 7: Sites and Sources
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Outflow water clock, ca 1350 BCE
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Worked in precious threads
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