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Cabinet - Sources

Drawing of The Seven Sisters
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Wax profile of William of Wykeham
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Lake Suolajarvi
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 222)
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Automata
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Printed model to printed image: Mimosa
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'Catalogus Herbarum ex horto Botanico Oxoniensi' (1676)
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Innovation and Printing
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Saami group
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T10: Silver stater struck at Tarsos, c. 420-410 BC.
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Robert Morison (1620-1683)
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South Porch, University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, 1637
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Raphael, School of Athens (1509-1510)
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Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
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Lateral Wall Gyri Model - Anatomical
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Women's First (and only) Eight, 1982
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The Cyrus Cylinder (Again)
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Visualizing 'The Movement of the Heart and the Blood in Living Creatures' (1628)
Harvey de motu cordis
Lithograph of men hunting sea lions
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Tomb of Sharshembii Uulu Abdykadyr (Kyrgyzstan)
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Queen Elizabeth I Bible (3D)
Writing Systems
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