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Cabinet - Sources

Wellcome MS 290, fol. 53v
A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 1
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Drawing of Johanninpoika Marataja
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Portable Sundials
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Proof, plate editing and print
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Scales Narrative
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Worked in precious threads
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Drawing of the interior of a Finnish house
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Xanthos Trilingual, 337 BC
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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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Dodo (Raphus cucullatus)
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Mosaic philosophy
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Hierarchies
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Origins of coins in the Black Sea Hoard
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Saxon urn
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Excavated Sarcophagus of Roman Girl, 1485
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Natural philosophy and medicine: the Schools Quadrangle
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Saami buildings on Lake Suolajarvi
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Bodleian Library, MS Canon. Ital. 258, fol. 32r
Printed model to printed image: Cyclamen
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, March 31, 1915
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Clone of San Zeno Wheel (Verona, c. 1450)
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Polish Prayer Book (Kazakhstan)
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