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Cabinet - Sources

Toward miniaturisation: the Fusee
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Qingbai Bowl, Southern Song dynasty, porcelain (12th Century)
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Lunar cycle
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Queenie
Khaki University Structure
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Clone of The four terrestrial elements
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Drawing of pottery vessels and other items
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JH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment.
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Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Basel, 1542)
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Another parallatic or ruler-instrument which shows the altitudes as well as the azimuths
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Thomas Millington's (1628-1703) plate
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Prague, 1584: Celestial globe clock
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Chinese books before paper
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Mountains on the moon
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Introduction
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Saami man
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The British War Medal
Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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Dedication to Rudolf II
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Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677)
Drawing of a Bulgarian settlement
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Unique prints
Image for Proofs (left and centre) and published plate of ‘GRAMEN PANICEUM, ALOPECUROS, GRAMEN ALOPECUROIDES. TYPHOIDES, ET SPARTEUM.’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 8, Tab. 4).
Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Princess Mary Gift Tin (3D)
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