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Cabinet - Sources

Medium sized azimuth quadrant of brass
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T13: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the general Tiribazos, c. 384-383 BC.
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Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Robert Hanley Hall, 11 June 1899
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Clone of 'Tradescant's Orchard' Herbal
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The world's earliest dated printed book (868)
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Medieval European cartography, c. 1280: speculative and symbolic
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Украшения бабушки (Кыргызстан)
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
Female reproductive system
Silver oinochoe with kouros handle from the Lydian Treasure
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Battle of White Mountain (8 November 1620)
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Another parallatic or ruler-instrument which shows the altitudes as well as the azimuths
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Central Oxford in 1643
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Aristotelianism in Medicine
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Anonymous 'Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis' (1648)
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Archibald Pitcairne's (1652-1713) plate
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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A cardboard box for concrete poetry
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Russian egg seller
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Monographing plants
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 374)
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Arcus Bipartitus
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Christopher Wren's (1632-1723) plate
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The problem of mobility: Mons Meg, 1449-97
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