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Cabinet - Sources

12. Olive oil
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Innumerable new stars
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Urban VIII by Pietro da Cortona (c. 1624-1627)
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Verses to Tycho Brahe by Oliger Rosenkrantz
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Ora et labora
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Suzan Bushnaq’s Artwork (Uzbekistan)
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Peter Mundy, 1634
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Johann König, Last Judgement on alabaster, before 1632
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Beyond Mainz: The Diaspora of Printing Shops
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Sir Isaac Newton, by Godfrey Keller (1702)
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Rene Descartes
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T26: Silver dishekel, struck at Sidon in the name of Tennes, c. 354-348 BC.
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T4: Silver tetradrachm struck in western Asia Minor (?), c. 341-334 BC.
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Soviet Piala (Uzbekistan)
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Title page of Through Bosnia and the Herzegóvina on Foot... (1876)
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Drawing of Saami children
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II.4 'Privilegium scholasticum': the jurisdiction of the Chancellor's Court
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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Gunpowder Warfare
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking north-east across the Court
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Roberto Valturio, De re militari (1472)
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Indian Institute
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Lithograph of Saami people
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Robert Hooke, 'Micrographia' (1665)
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