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Cabinet - Sources

Music: printing with movable type, 1501
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‘Christian Gravestone’
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Unique prints
Image for Proofs (left and centre) and published plate of ‘GRAMEN PANICEUM, ALOPECUROS, GRAMEN ALOPECUROIDES. TYPHOIDES, ET SPARTEUM.’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 8, Tab. 4).
'Tradescant's Orchard' Herbal
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The celestial sphere: the fifth element the geocentric cosmology
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, fol. 259v
Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 1
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 7 1915
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17. Polishing weapons
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BSH15: Silver pennanular bracelet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Saami buildings on Lake Suolajarvi
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Drawing of mountains
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (glass negative)
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Cilicia: Sites and Sources
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Introduction: architecture becomes a liberal art
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Nabonidus Chronicle (BM)
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Angels
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2. Magnetic Compass
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The Slave Trade
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Crucifixion in coral
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III.4 The Three Higher Faculties: Medicine, Law, and Theology
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Val Wyatt
‘Latin Maiden of Tešanj’
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8. Silk or the silk worm
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