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Cabinet - Sources

Enquiry about a missing soldier
Translation of Duchêne (Tajikistan)
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The printing process
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, ff. 42v - 43r
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Classical architecture arrives in Oxford, 1599
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Gunpowder weapons in 15th-century Korea
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Finnish boy
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Homesteading in Canada
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Statue of Darius from Susa
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Boyle, Hooke and Oxford
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Galileo's first telescopes, 1609-10
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Jan Brueghel I and Peter Paul Rubens, 1617
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"Achaemenid Bowl" from Deve Hüyük (A)
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Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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Frans Post, A Sugar Mill Driven by a Small River (c.1650-1655)
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"Homesteads for Women" by Fanny Shepherd.
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BSH5: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment, c. 450–425 BC.
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Antiquarianism in the Aegean
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Heavy artillery before gunpowder: the trebuchet
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Drawing of the interior of a church
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Friar Bacon's Study and Folly Bridge
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Drawing of the church at Piteå
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Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364