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Cabinet - Sources

Clone of Humanist botany: the case of Dioscorides
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Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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Menus - Queenette Club
Promotional Immigration Literature and Ephemera
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Religion: Luther and the Reformation, 1517
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Seal of Darius I (BM)
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Explore the Display Case
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The oldest sundials
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Heavy artillery before gunpowder: the trebuchet
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Quadratura circuli (1643): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 164)
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Relics
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BSH9: Silver stater of King Onasi-, Paphos (Cyprus), probably c. 450-420 BC.
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Helioscope
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John of Sacrobosco, De Sphaera Mundi (Venice, 1490)
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Queenie Vol. VIII, No. 3
Drawing of the Church of Saint Jacob in Hudiksvall
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Польский молитвенник (Казахстан)
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Jacopo Pontormo, The Deposition from the Cross (1525-1528)
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Cotton Combines (Tajikistan)
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The King's Gate, Corpus Christi College
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Çan Sarcophagus, 1st quarter of 4th century BC.
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Polish man smoking a pipe
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