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Cabinet - Sources

Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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‘Turkish Café, Tesanj’
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 42r
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 1
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Terrestrial longitude
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Rhinoceros horn cup, Prague 1611
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Inscribed oracle bones, 12th century BCE
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Soldier portraits
Room
The Bibliophile Jean Grolier (1479-1565)
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Javelin-head from Deve Hüyük
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Translation of Duchêne (Tajikistan)
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Redesigning the college library: Merton, 1589-90
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Turkmen earrings gulak-halka (Turkmenistan)
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Bibliography
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Emblem 'Am I not a Man and a Brother'?
Lithograph of Saami fishermen
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William Wordsworth, A Guide through the District of the Lakes in the North of England (Kendal, 1835)
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‘Totem Poles’, an imaginary view of a Haida village by Louis Fairfax Muckley
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Giambologna, The Rape of the Sabine Woman (1582)
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The ancient papermaking process
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Drawing of a Croatian woman
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BSH15: Silver pennanular bracelet, from the Black Sea hoard
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