Cabinet - Sources

War and Peace in Europe, 1598-1650
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Saxon urn
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Jan van Kessel, the Elder, c. 1650-3.
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Armillary Sphere
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John Fell's (1625-1686) plate
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Saami woman
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Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, c. 1490
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Autograph inscription by Sir Henry Wotton to the Bodleian Library, 15 August 1633
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Doll (Kazakhstan)
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 19, 1915
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
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Cricket
Drawing of a Saami cradle
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 210, fol. 9r
Reformers
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Ball gown
Russian women
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Opera didactica omnia, 1657
Florentine Codex, Nahuas infected with smallpox (c. 1585)
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Al-Idrīsī's world map, 1152
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Danby Gate, Botanical Garden, 1632-3
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Dante's Canzoniere in Britain
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Galileo's most decisive telescopic observation: the phases of Venus, 1610-23
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