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Cabinet - Sources

Mystics
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Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
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Dutch Delft Militiamen, 1606-1674
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Francis Bacon at 17 years of age, 1578
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Wellcome MS 349, fol. 22r
Tubeteika (Uzbekistan)
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BSH16: Half of silver penannular bracelet, from the Black Sea hoard
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The oldest sundials
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Gül-yaka (Turkmenistan)
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (print)
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Innumerable new stars
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Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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Transcription: "'Our Weddin': A True Saskatchewan Story of Feb, 1916."
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Battle of White Mountain (8 November 1620)
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Cabinet for Ferdinand II of Tyrol, c. 1582
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Bobart the Younger’s Hortus Siccus
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Casting from life, c. 1560-70
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Saami woman
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Oswald Croll, Basilica chymica, 1609
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Recreation of Ancient Paintings: Botticelli, The Calumny of Apelles (1496-1497)
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Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’, looking east across the Court
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Duke Humfrey's Library before Bodley
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Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, c. 1490
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University Church
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