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Cabinet - Sources

Oxford's defences, 1644: a garbled map
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What was printed in the 15th century?
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Church at Rovaniemi
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Drawing of Ukonsaari
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Clone of New plants from the New World
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Innumerable new stars
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Examination Papers (1975-6)
Florey Building
Carried into exile
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Rudolf II by Hans von Aachen (1606/1608)
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Finnish boatmen
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Rose Hughes' album
Zebra print bikini
Prague, 1599-1612: The Rudolphine Tables (1627)
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The four terrestrial elements
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Oswald Croll, Basilica chymica, 1609
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
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From Italy to Germany, 1390: the precondition of the print revolution
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 428)
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court
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Medicinal objects in princely collections
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 13002, folios 2v-3r
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Fanny the Writer: "Mother Amazed Us All."
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