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Cabinet - Sources

The Savilian Professorships, 1619
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John of Sacrobosco, De Sphaera Mundi (Venice, 1490)
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Letter from Joseph Derbyshire
The mural, or Tychonian, quadrant
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Roadshow overview
Russian wet nurse
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Geber
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Florentine Codex, Nahuas infected with smallpox (c. 1585)
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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The Bobarts' Herbaria
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Daniel Sennert (1572-1637)
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The oldest sundials
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Three-pillared compound microscope, 1760s
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Russian men
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Young Hare, 1502
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Lithograph of antlers and weapons
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 324)
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Finnish man
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (print)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 374)
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John Gerard's 'The herball' (1633)
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Europe c. 1000 AD
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