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Cabinet - Sources

Anatomical engravings
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Philip Stephens and William Browne's 'Catalogus Horti Botanici Oxoniensis' (1658)
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Queen Elizabeth I Feeding the Dutch Cow
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Russian man and boy
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South Porch, University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, 1637
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 114)
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Letter from Joseph Derbyshire
The Waldseemüller map, 1507
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Русско-таджикский словарь философской терминологии (Таджикистан)
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Persepolis palace complex
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 2
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Saami woman
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II.1 Where, and what, is the university?
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The Achaemenids in the Shahnameh
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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Tail fat glass jar (Kazakhstan)
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Soldier portraits
Oswald Croll, Basilica chymica, 1609
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Domenichino, Triumphal Arch (c. 1609)
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Letter from Archer Baker to Edward Burnett Tylor, 17 January 1901
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Drawing of a saddled reindeer
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