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Cabinet - Sources

Automaton monk, probably Spanish, ca 1550
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Clay Whistle (Tajikistan and Uzbekistan)
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II.2 'Universitas': the original meaning of the term
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Cabinet for Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, 1632
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Queenie Vol. VI, No. 1
Bird Rattle (3D)
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 41r
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Verses in praise of Tycho Brahe by Rudolph Caukerchius
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A poem written by Christopher Wordsworth at Winchester
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Armillae Zodiacales
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Houses and totem poles in Masset (glass negative)
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10. The Watermill
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Plant to drawing: Geranium and Sideritis
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Reindeer
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Red-figure krater painted by the "Darius painter", c. 340-320 BC.
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Drawing of The Seven Sisters
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Building the Bodleian
Martin Behaim's globe, 1492
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Chancellor's Court, 1634-7
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Theodor de Bry, Oppidum Secota (c. 1590)
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'The Female Vagrant' (vol. 1)
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'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' manuscript (17th century)
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Papal Coin, Boniface VIII
Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘On Two British Columbian House-Posts...’ (1899)
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