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Cabinet - Sources

Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 5, 1915
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Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
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Spoon of decorated reindeer antler
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Oxford's defences, 1644: a garbled map
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Movable type
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Michael Maier, Symbola aureae mensae, 1617
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Hemispherical bowl from Deve Hüyük
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Globus Magnus Orichalcicus
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Introduction
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The Idiot Boy (vol. 1)
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Writing Systems
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The mariner's astrolabe: derivation and usage
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Cardo
Johannes Hevelius, Machina coelestis, 1673: Frontispiece
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Clone of The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Transcription: "Mother's Holiday."
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T28: Silver sixteenth-shekel, struck at Sidon in the name of the satrap Mazaios, 336/5 BC.
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Instruments: preserved in the Museo Galileo
Translation of the Qu'ran by Sayyid Mahmud Tarazi (Uzbekistan/India)
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Convocation House, 1634-7
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Tetzel as Indulgence Seller
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Soldier portraits
William Gilpin, Observations on the River Wye and Several Parts of South Wales (London, 1789)
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