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Cabinet - Sources

T8: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Mithrapata of Antiphellos, c. 390-360 BC.
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Купюра 10 000 рублей Туркестанской Совесткой Республики
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Medium sized azimuth quadrant of brass
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Transcription: "Mrs Shepherd on Poultry."
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Sphaera civitatis
16. Terrestrial longitude
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The first superintendent: Jacob Bobart the Elder (c. 1599-1680)
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Refurbishing Duke Humphrey's, 1598-1602
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Islamic Alchemy: A Primer
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Хлопок как символ (Узбекистан)
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Another azimuth quadrant of brass
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Male reproductive system
Anthony Wood (1632-1695) and Postmaster's Hall
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BSH3: Silver tetradrachm of Akanthos (Chalcidice), fragment, c. 470 BC.
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Маца (Казахстан)
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Michelangelo, Last Judgment (1536-1541)
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Francis I Gallery at the Fontainbleau Castle
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg, ca 1585
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From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Goblet made from a bezoar, Prague c. 1600
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The Drake Chair - Divinity Schools, Bodleian Library
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Thomas Browne, 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' (1672)
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Urban VIII by Pietro da Cortona (c. 1624-1627)
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