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Cabinet - Sources

The earliest book printed with movable type (1377)
T27: Silver dishekel, struck at Sidon in the name of the satrap Mazaios, 336/5 BC.
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Examination Papers (1975-6)
An unlikely duo
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Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, Augsburg, ca 1625
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Arba (Kazakhstan)
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Saami cradle
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Drawing of the Church of Saint Jacob in Hudiksvall
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Hooke's microscope
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The right man for the job
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Bicycle
Alchemical Pestle and Mortar
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Melozzo da Forlì, Sixtus IV Appointing Platina as Prefect of the Vatican Library (1477)
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, April 7, 1915
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The mariner's astrolabe: derivation and usage
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 42r
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Drawing of Johanninpoika Marataja
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Lateral Wall Sulci Model
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Petrarch’s Canzoniere and Triumphs with one sonnet attributed to Dante (MS Can. Ital. 70)
Russian basket seller
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Saxon urn
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Course description
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