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Cabinet - Sources

Displaying ‘kindreds and affinities’
Image for Plate of ‘TABULA VMBELLARVM GENERALIS. cognationes S[ive]: affinitatis’ from Morison’s Plantarum umbelliferarum distributio nova (1672: Tab. 1).
Introduction
Speculum academicum (1638): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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BSH13: Silver bar-ingot (complete).
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Attic Lekythos from Deve Hüyük
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A New Profession
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Books
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August of Saxony by Lucas Cranach jr., 1572
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Rice fields (Central Asia)
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Picture postcards
Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Lateral Wall Gyri Model - Anatomical
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BSH2: Silver octadrachm of the Bisaltai (Thrace), fragment, c. 465 BC.
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Frans Post, A Sugar Mill Driven by a Small River (c.1650-1655)
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A box to 'kindle therein any fire or flame'?
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University botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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II.3 'Universitas magistrorum et scholarium’: a self-governing corporation of teachers and students
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, fol. 259v
Models of Saami men
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From decoration to illustration
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," March 31 1915
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Beer cellar