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Cabinet - Sources

Missions in the Americas
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Professor B F McGuinness
T12: Silver stater struck at Mallos in the name of the general Tiribazos, c. 384-383 BC.
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Quadratura circuli (1643): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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Fanny's Scales
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Children in uniform
План-схема Самарканда (Узбекистан)
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Saami man
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Jan van Kessel, the Elder, c. 1650-3.
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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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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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Carlo Plato, Armillary Sphere (1588)
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Map of the New World, 1544
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Portolan chart of Jorge de Aguiar (1492)
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Family portraits
Newton's Alchemical Sublimations
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The Astronomical Clock of Richard of Wallingford (d. 1336)
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Worked in precious threads
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Depiction of Mecca by Louis-Nicolas de Lespinasse, 1787
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'Like a bundle of thin laths'
Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 372)
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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Piazza del Popolo (c. 1662-1681)
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Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644)
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