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Cabinet - Sources

Descartes' Discourse (1637)
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Monographing plants
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, April 28, 1915
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The Suitcase (Kazakhstan)
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Drawing of a warehouse
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Book Forms: Overview
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 184)
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John Fell's (1625-1686) plate
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Sextans Astronomicus Trigonicus
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Design of the main buildings of Uraniborg
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Почтовые марки с изображениями архитектурных памятников Самарканда (Узбекистан)
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Wax profile of William of Wykeham
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Islam in the 9th Century
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Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531)
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Saami buildings on Lake Suolajarvi
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Francis Bacon, c. 1618
Hooke's Micrographia, 1665
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T31: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the Egyptian satrap Sabakes, c.340-333 BC.
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Transcription: "Hens Should Cackle All The Winter."
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Sidereus Nuncius, 1610
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Drawing of a Saami cradle
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T8: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Mithrapata of Antiphellos, c. 390-360 BC.
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking north-east across the Court
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Sundials in 17th-century Oxford
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