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Cabinet - Sources

Watercolour painting by Alfred Robinson of Star House Pole
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Wire-drawing bench, Nuremberg, before 1565
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 28 1915
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Cabinet for August of Brunswick-Lüneburg, c. 1630
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"Tutto Dante"
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Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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Disorder
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Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1875)
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Three medals: Pip, Squeak and Wilfred
Letter from Laurence Dunne
Custom-made phonebook (Kazakhstan)
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Family portraits
Clone of The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 12, 1915
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Upper Gallery, 1618-19
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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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Printed model to printed image: Senecio
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Astrolabes: How do they work?
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Transcription: "Women and Land."
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Iconoclasm in the Low Countries
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Drawing of Lake Hammasjarvi
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Sundials in the Renaissance
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Oxford as a Window on Seventeenth-Century Science
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