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Cabinet - Sources

I. America
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Concrete Fences (Kyrgyzstan)
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II.3 'Universitas magistrorum et scholarium’: a self-governing corporation of teachers and students
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“Rest in peace, for we are awake”: The Iranian Celebrations of 1971.
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Wooden Shield
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William Wordsworth, A Guide through the District of the Lakes in the North of England (Kendal, 1835)
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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Battle of White Mountain (8 November 1620)
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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From the Bobarts' Herbaria to Morison's Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis (1699)
BSH19: Fragment of silver sheet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Dresden, 1581: Georg Wecker's polyhedra
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Ribeiro planisphere of 1529
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Automata
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A box to 'kindle therein any fire or flame'?
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British Victory Medal
Philip Stephens and William Browne's 'Catalogus Horti Botanici Oxoniensis' (1658)
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Soldier’s Letters
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Armillary Sphere
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A Poetic Anthology from the Veneto (MS Can. Ital. 81)
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Meydancıkkale
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking south-east across the Court
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Thomas Browne, 'Posthumous works' (1712)
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Drawing of mountains
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