Cabinet - Sources

Oxford's defences, 1644: a garbled map
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Thomas McGarry
Printed model to printed image: Senecio
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Virgil, Eclogues (Aldus Manutius, 1501)
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Grandmother's spindle (Kyrgyzstan)
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Visitors to the Bodleian
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Glory to Belgium
Adaptation: Early papermaking in Italy, 1264
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Morison's 'Sciagraphia'
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Building the Bodleian
Quadrans Maximus
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Naqsh-e Rustam: Achaemenid Tombs and Sasanian Reliefs.
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Anatomical engravings
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Tabula Rogeriana
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
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Astronomical Device (3D)
Drawing of Ukonsaari
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Письма солдата (Казахстан)
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Конфеты Кара-Кум (Центральная Азия)
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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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Qingbai Bowl, Southern Song dynasty, porcelain (12th Century)
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BSH5: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment, c. 450–425 BC.
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 14 1915
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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