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Cabinet - Sources

Letter from John Wordsworth to his father Revd Wordsworth
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V.2 The 'studia humanitatis': what was at stake?
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BSH16: Half of silver penannular bracelet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Ewer formed from a Seychelles nut, Prague, 1602
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Author's inscription
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (stereograph)
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 5, 1915
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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Family of Sigismund I Jagiellon, c. 1565
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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‘Croat Woman in the Agram Market’
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, April 7, 1915
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Tabula Rogeriana
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Galileo's first telescopes, 1609-10
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Hven, 1576-97: Tycho Brahe's observatory
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Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’, east end of the Court
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A box to 'kindle therein any fire or flame'?
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Article featuring Helen Carmichael
Astrolabes: How do they work?
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Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Basel, 1542)
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Indian Institute
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Cotton Combines (Tajikistan)
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