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Cabinet - Sources

Homesteading in Canada
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Studiolo of Isabella d'Este
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A Poetic Anthology from the Veneto (MS Can. Ital. 81)
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Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
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Haida totem pole known as Star House Pole (3-D)
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Robert Hooke, 'Micrographia' (1665)
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The Schools Quadrangle, 1613-24
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Mongol Empire in 1290
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The Medieval Worldview
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Insects
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Clock with Automated Procession of Bacchus, ca 1580
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‘Latin Maiden of Tešanj’
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Execution of Levellers, Gloucester Green, 1649
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The Little Blue Book
Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (print)
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Innovation and Printing
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Vatican Library, Pal.lat. 1369, fol. 148r
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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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The Decrees of the Council of Trent
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Ismail al-Jazari's Elephant clock, ca 1200
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Map of religious divisions in the Swiss Confederation (1536)
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Armillae AEquatoriae maximae
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