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Cabinet - Sources

Portuguese and Spanish Trade Routes
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Cabinet for Ferdinand II of Tyrol, c. 1582
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Robert Boyle's (1627-1691) plate
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Nevada-Semipalatinsk pennant (Kazakhstan)
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Prague Astronomical Clock (1410 onwards)
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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 1
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Lithograph of Saami fishermen
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Verses to Tycho Brahe by Oliger Rosenkrantz
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Helioscope
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Gilt silver rhyton (BM)
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Chess-Man
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Water clocks
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John Rose's (1619-1677) plate
Image for Plate of ‘VARIÆ PLANTÆ ADDENDÆ suis GENERIBUS INTERMEDIIS’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1680: Sect. 5, Tab. 36) sponsored by John Rose (1619-1677).
Title page of Through Bosnia and the Herzegovina on Foot... (1877)
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Polish man smoking a pipe
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4. Printing
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Anaphoric water clock, ca 50 BCE
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History
Convocation House, 1634-7
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Colantonio, St Jerome in his Study (1444)
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Bernard Palissy (attributed), Oval Platter
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New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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Clone of Embriachi Casket @ test(3D)