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Cabinet - Sources

Prague, 1584: Celestial globe clock
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Clone of New plants from the New World
Image for Typical folio of specimens from Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus, mostly labelled in the hand of Jacob Bobart the Younger.
'Tradescant's Orchard' Herbal
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BSH1: Silver didrachm of Segesta (Sicily), c. 475–450 BC.
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SS Vicenzo e Atanasio Church, Rome (1644-1650)
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Clone of Instruments for Dissection
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Spoon of decorated reindeer antler
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Studiolo of Isabella d'Este
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Mosaic (Kazakhstan)
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T11: Silver stater struck at Tarsos, c. 410-385 BC.
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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Gerhard Mercator’s world map of 1569
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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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A cardboard box for concrete poetry
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BSH5: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment, c. 450–425 BC.
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 5, fol. 34v
Clone of New plants, new medicines
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The first image of a Printing Shop
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Cornelis Bega, The Alchemist (1663)
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New plants, new medicines
Image for Tobacco Plant, from Nicolas Monardes' Historia medicinal (1574)
A fragmented polity
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The moons of Jupiter
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Donum Dei
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John Calvin (1509-1564)
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