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Cabinet - Sources

Astrolabes: How do they work?
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Catacomb Saints
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Doll (Kazakhstan)
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Drawing of trees
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BSH7: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class B””), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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Saami couple
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Galileo's most decisive telescopic observation: the phases of Venus, 1610-23
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John Wilkins
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Netsuke representing Tanuki, the raccoon dog (3-D)
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The transmission of knowledge: From manuscript to print
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Dala Shiypon in Jarqurgon District (Surkhandaryo Viloyat, Uzbekistan)
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A deed box for an unpaid debt to the Bodleian Library
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Statue of Darius from Susa
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Quadratura circuli (1643): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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Drawing of a woman
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Monk automaton, probably Spanish, ca 1550
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Architecture: Serlio's Five Books of Architecture, 1537-51
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John Tradescant the Elder
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A view from Tibet
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Oxford's defences, 1644: a garbled map
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The Cotton Symbol (Uzbekistan)
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Concrete Fences (Kyrgyzstan)
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Star Fort of Palmanova (1593)
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Portrait of a Saami girl
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