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Cabinet - Sources

Saami women
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Perspective Applied: Masaccio, Trinità (c.1426-1428)
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Bodleian, MS e. Mus. 19, fol. 165v
Multiple ivory balls
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Çan Sarcophagus, 1st quarter of 4th century BC.
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Drawing of mountains
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The 1514 Appendix Aldina
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Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole reproduced in E. B. Tylor’s article, ‘Note on the Haida Totem-Post...’
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Archbishop William Laud and the Bishops' War (1639-40)
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (glass negative)
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Author's inscription
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Collections in the Upper Gallery
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The Ming Empire (1368-1644)
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Wire-drawing bench, Nuremberg, before 1565
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Astronomical table clock
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Pietro da Cortona, Ceiling of Palazzo Barberini, Rome (1633-1639)
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Descartes' Discourse (1637)
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Drawing of a woman
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Kurt (Kurut)
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Central Oxford in 1578
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Clement VII by Sebastiano del Piombo (c. 1531)
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Francois Dubois, St Bartolomew's Day Massacre
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'Star forts', 'gunpowder fortifications', and the 'trace italienne'
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