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Cabinet - Sources

Johanninpoika Marataja
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Philosophers guiding research
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Collections in the Upper Gallery
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Russian peasant
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Aliud instrumentum simile priori
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Assyrian relief from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud
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Helioscope
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Resettlement Registration Application (Tajikistan)
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Map of the New World, 1544
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The Ming Empire (1368-1644)
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Kano Naizen, Portuguese Carrack in Nagasaki (late 16th-early 17th century)
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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Double pigeon whistle (3-D)
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Harvey's Travels
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Dedication (cont.)
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 19 1915
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Saami cradle
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Bibliography
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Explore the Display Case
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The astrolabe
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Robert Hooke
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Rhodes Building at Oriel College, High Street
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'Catalogus Herbarum ex horto Botanico Oxoniensi' (1676)
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Secrets of the calendar
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