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Cabinet - Sources

Saxon women
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Picture postcards
‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 2
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Sundials in 17th-century Oxford
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7. Distillation
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Sewing machine
Ruin
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Medieval European cartography, c. 1280: speculative and symbolic
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A view from Tibet
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Church at Tornio
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Totem poles
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Russian tailor’s apprentices
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Astrolabes: How do they work?
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BSH6: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class A”), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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Architecture: Serlio's Five Books of Architecture, 1537-51
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The Houses of Tradescant and Ashmole, South Lambeth
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Porter's note
Clone of Jardin des Plantes in Paris (1636)
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Philology: The Antwerp polyglot, 1568-73
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Invitation