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Cabinet - Sources

Brain and ocular system
Jan Brueghel I and Peter Paul Rubens, 1617
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Heinrich Khunrath, 'Ora et Labora' (1609)
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Val Wyatt
Stamp Seal Pendant from the Lydian Treasure
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Cream seller
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, April 28, 1915
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Drawing of a lake
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone’, manuscript on paper, 1800
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Lateral Wall Gyri Model - Functional
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Pharmacies and Alchemical Laboratories
Image for A Chemical Laboratory Behind an Apothecary Shop, 1747
Young Hare, 1502
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Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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Male reproductive system
Introduction
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 28 1915
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Ptolemy World Map, 1482
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Birth certificate (Kazakhstan)
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Nova reperta: title page
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From humanist manuscripts to italic pocketbooks: the Aldine press, 1501
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Rose Hughes' album
Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’, east end of the Court
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Map of the New World, 1544
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Town and gown: Authentica habita and the Privilegium scholasticum
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