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Cabinet - Sources

Letter from John Wordsworth to his father Revd Wordsworth
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'Like a bundle of thin laths'
Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Нагрудный туристический значок «Биби-Ханым»
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Astrolabes: How do they work?
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Statue of Darius from Susa
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New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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Saami man
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 12 1915
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A satchel for a scholar
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Russian men
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BSH1: Silver didrachm of Segesta (Sicily), c. 475–450 BC.
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Transcription: "The Star's Letter Box."
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Свидетельство о рождении Абраши Леваевича Ильясова (Узбекистан)
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Virgil, Eclogues (Aldus Manutius, 1501)
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Imser Planetary Clock, ca 1554-61
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South Porch, University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, 1637
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Descartes's correspondence
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Vitruvius on architecture
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Seal of Darius I (BM)
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The first map of 'America': the Waldseemüller map, 1507
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Introduction
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V.1 ‘Humanism’: an educational curriculum
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Drawing of a Saami settlement on Lake Hammasjarvi
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