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Cabinet - Sources

Thomas Browne, 'Religio Medici' (1644)
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A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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T11: Silver stater struck at Tarsos, c. 410-385 BC.
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Hooke's microscope, 1665
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Тюбетейка (Узбекистан)
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Arts End, 1610-12
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'The Female Vagrant' (vol. 1)
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Celestial globe clock, Augsburg, 1584
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The Savilian Professorships, 1619
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna and Child (1488)
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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The early modern siege
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Tabule astronomice Alfonsi Regis (Venice, 1492)
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 19 1915
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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 1
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Ribeiro planisphere of 1529
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 28 August 1902
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Inflow water clock
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The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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Runic Almanac
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Pioneer scarf (Tajikistan)
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Statues of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, Canterbury Quadrangle, St John's College
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Missions to India
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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