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Cabinet - Sources

A Copy of the Convivio (MS Ital. d 5)
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Astronomical sextant for measuring altitudes
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BSH16: Half of silver penannular bracelet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Anatomy theatre as museum
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Article featuring Helen Carmichael
Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Oxford's defences, 1644: a garbled map
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Russian man
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Assyrian relief from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court
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The not so ‘dark side’
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Traditional Chinese papermaking today
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"Tutto Dante"
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Drawing of a Saami cradle
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Upper Gallery, 1618-19
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IV.4 The method for expounding authorities: the lecture
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Польский молитвенник (Казахстан)
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Natural philosophy and medicine: the Schools Quadrangle
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Drawing of an Alchemical House from Libavius (1606)
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Three medals: Pip, Squeak and Wilfred
Thomas Browne, 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' (1672)
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‘Types at the Fair’
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Silver phiale with inscription of Artaxerxes I (BM)
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