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Cabinet - Sources

Anatomy: Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Notes on ‘totemism’ by Edward Burnett Tylor
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Rudolf II by Hans von Aachen (1606/1608)
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Quadratura circuli (1643): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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Перевод Корана Саййиддом Махмуд Тарази (Узбекистан/Индия)
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A satchel for a scholar
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Professor B F McGuinness
Plate to print: process
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Drawing of mountains
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T12: Silver stater struck at Mallos in the name of the general Tiribazos, c. 384-383 BC.
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Biblioteca Malatestiana, Cesena
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The celestial sphere: the fifth element the geocentric cosmology
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Souvenir badge from the Bibi-Khanym Mosque
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Bladder fish
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Silver and gold phiale from the Lydian Treasure
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Examination Papers (1978)
Outflow water clock, ca 1350 BCE
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Cantino world map, 1502
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8. Silk or the silk worm
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Studiolo of Francesco I de Medici, 1570-75
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 40v
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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