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Cabinet - Sources

"One small step..."
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'Like a bundle of thin laths'
Drawing of Lake Hammasjarvi
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Transcription: "The Star's Letter Box."
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The not so ‘dark side’
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Printing and the economy: the first paper money
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Silver 'quasi-phiale' from the Lydian Treasure
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Oxford's most famous sundial
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Necklace with acorn pendants from the Lydian Treasure
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Saami boys
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Dedication (cont.)
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Thomas Browne, 'Posthumous works' (1712)
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The growth of the empire, c. 559-500 BC
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New medicines, new collections: From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Dala Shiypon in Jarqurgon District (Surkhandaryo Viloyat, Uzbekistan)
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Queenie Vol. VIII, No. 5
Cardo
Russian man
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Churches at Sodankylä
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Bladder fish
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Drawing of a Bulgarian settlement
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Bodleian, MS Digby 81, fol. 128v
Finnish boy
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The spread of printing in Europe, 1455-1500
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