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Cabinet - Sources

Ball gown
Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university
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Ordinary visitors: evidence of handling
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'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' manuscript (17th century)
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 399, folios 18r-22r
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Inscribed oracle bones, 12th century BCE
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 13002, folios 2v-3r
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Star Fort of Palmanova (1593)
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Remedy for women
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Gunpowder Warfare
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The Decrees of the Council of Trent
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, April 7, 1915
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Silver phiale with inscription of Artaxerxes I (BM)
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Henry Compton's (1631/2-1713) plate
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T14: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the general Pharnabazos, c. 380-373 BC.
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The three perfections: calligraphy
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De aliis quibusdam Instrumentis nostris
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Luis de Camoens, The Lusiad (London, 1655)
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Title page of Through Bosnia and the Herzegovina on Foot... (1877)
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Brain and ocular system
Swedish woman
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Looking presidential
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A New Profession
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