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Cabinet - Sources

The mariner's astrolabe and Portuguese exploration
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, April 7, 1915
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Lateral Wall Gyri Model - Functional
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 14 1915
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Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society, 1667
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Helioscope
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I.2. College foundations in Oxford and Cambridge, 1249-1878
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Jan van der Straet, The Alchemist's Laboratory (1570)
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Delftware Vase, Netherlands, tin-glazed earthenware with underglaze blue decoration (c. 1680)
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Christopher Wren's (1632-1723) plate
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Chinese Trench Art (3D)
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Map of Median Empire (c. 600 BC)
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Soldier portraits
SS Vicenzo e Atanasio Church, Rome (1644-1650)
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Drawing of a woman
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Saami woman
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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘Remarks on Totemism...’ (1899)
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Nabonidus Chronicle (BM)
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Lateral Wall Gyri Model - Anatomical
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Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’
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John Tradescant the Elder
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Elephant's tooth
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Gentile Bellini, Procession in Piazza San Marco
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Explanation of the design of Uraniborg with all its premises
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