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Cabinet - Sources

Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court
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Saami bride and groom
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Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
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3D scans of rock structures
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The early modern siege
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William Lisle Bowles, Fourteen sonnets (Bath, 1789)
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (print)
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'Palissy Ware' Dish
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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‘Old Castle of Doboj’
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Netsuke representing Tanuki, the raccoon dog (3-D)
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'Median' dagger from Deve Hüyük
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Stamp Seal Pendant from the Lydian Treasure
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 382)
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The Cyrus Cylinder (Again)
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Jardin des Plantes in Paris (1636)
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Map of Assyrian Empire (824 BC and 671 BC)
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Saami woman
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Technological innovation, c. 1580
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Oxford's most famous sundial
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", May 5 1915
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Russian wet nurse
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The origin and spread of botanical gardens in European universities
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