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Cabinet - Sources

2. Magnetic Compass
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Leo X by Raphael (c. 1518)
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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T15: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of Tarkumuwa, c. 380-370 BC.
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Cricket
Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, ca 1620
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Philip Stephens and William Browne's 'Catalogus Horti Botanici Oxoniensis' (1658)
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Lithograph of Saami herding reindeer
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Papal Coin, John XXII
Michael Maier, Symbola aureae mensae, 1617
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Travel authorisation by Arshama
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Runic Almanac
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The world's earliest dated printed book (868)
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Medial Wall Gyri Model
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Innumerable new stars
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Head of a fly
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Mantegna, Saint Sebastian (1456–1457)
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A cook in the trenches
T28: Silver sixteenth-shekel, struck at Sidon in the name of the satrap Mazaios, 336/5 BC.
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Sentimental cards
Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 428)
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Oxford's defences, 1648
Cartographic table, Nuremberg, c. 1553
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Clypeus ploti Fossil
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