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Cabinet - Sources

Sonnets by Dante in a Lyric Miscellany (MS Can. Ital. 65)
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MS Ashmole 399, folios 14r-15r
Robert Boyle
Index of Prohibited Books
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Background: Botany in Ancient and Medieval Europe
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Frunze Museum, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
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Beyond Mainz: The Diaspora of Printing Shops
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Design of the main buildings of Uraniborg
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Great steel quadrant, inscribed in a square, also of steel, and revolving in azimuth
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Johannes Kepler, 'Harmonices Mundi' (1619)
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Printed model to printed image: Cyclamen
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The Geography of Claudius Ptolemy
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Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort's (1630-1715) plate
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Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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Instrumenti eiusdem ut Altitudinibus Capiendis
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Saami bridegroom
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BSH9: Silver stater of King Onasi-, Paphos (Cyprus), probably c. 450-420 BC.
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The end of the Hundred Years' War, 1453
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William Gilpin, Observations on the River Wye and Several Parts of South Wales (London, 1789)
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Printed model to printed image: Blechnum
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Swedish woman
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Willem Piso and Georg Marggraf's 'Historia naturalis Brasiliae' (1648)
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Karaburun Tumulus II, early 5th century BC.
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Russian women
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