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Cabinet - Sources

The first superintendent: Jacob Bobart the Elder (c. 1599-1680)
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Cinnamon, peppercorns, nutmeg and cloves
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Birth Certificate: Abrasha Levaevich Il’yasov (Uzbekistan)
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Arba (Kazakhstan)
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Муйнакский рыбоконсервный комбинат (Узбекистан)
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Collections in the Upper Gallery
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Хлопковые весы (Таджикистан)
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T13: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the general Tiribazos, c. 384-383 BC.
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Thomas Browne, 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' (1672)
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‘Totem Poles’, an imaginary view of a Haida village by Louis Fairfax Muckley
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Paper flowers
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Michael Maier (1568–1622)
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Plate to print: carrot
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Head of a fly
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JH1: Silver stater of Messana (Sicily), c. 488–481 BC.
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'Palissy Ware' Dish
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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T12: Silver stater struck at Mallos in the name of the general Tiribazos, c. 384-383 BC.
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Xylography (woodblock printing)
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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Missions to China
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Lighter
BSH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, c. 450–425 BC.
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