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Cabinet - Sources

15. Eyeglasses
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Musaeum Tradescantianum, 1656
Supplement regarding the subdivision and dioptre of the instruments
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I.1. University foundations in Europe, 1400-1800
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Tower of the Five Orders, 1613-24
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The Geography of Claudius Ptolemy
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone’, manuscript on paper, 1800
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Pilgrimage
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The three perfections: poetry and painting
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Terracotta 'Persian rider' from Selemieh
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Saami bride
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Balagan (Central Asia)
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Upper Gallery, 1618-19
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BSH14: Silver strip.
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Russian fruit seller
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BSH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, c. 450–425 BC.
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Plate to print: process
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Lantern clock with pyramid stand (c. 1700)
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Hemispherical sundial
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 41v
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Oxford as a Window on Seventeenth-Century Science
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Russian-Tajik Dictionary for Philosophical Terminology (Tajikistan)
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Cushion starfish
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