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Cabinet - Sources

Chinese Alchemy
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My grandmother’s jewellery
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The Savilian Professorships, 1619
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Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica cover (in depth)
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Drawing of a saddled reindeer
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Supplement regarding the subdivision and dioptre of the instruments
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Small quadrant of gilt brass
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T12: Silver stater struck at Mallos in the name of the general Tiribazos, c. 384-383 BC.
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Shrapnel paper knife
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 13002, folios 2v-3r
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Medal of “Motherhood” (Central Asia)
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Xylography (woodblock printing)
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Anatomical engravings
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Sundials in 17th-century Oxford
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The mariner's astrolabe: derivation and usage
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Star Fort of Bourtange, Netherlands (1593)
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Saami woman
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A cook in the trenches
Transcription: "Mother's Holiday."
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Armillary Sphere (from 1613)
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The ancient papermaking process
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, ff. 42v - 43r
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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Technological innovation, c. 1580
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