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Cabinet - Sources

Topography of the island of Hven
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The Idiot Boy (vol. 1)
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The reception of De motu cordis
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Chaplain's Collar
Clone of Embriachi Casket @ test(3D)
Notes on ‘totemism’ by Edward Burnett Tylor
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John Evelyn's (1620-1706) plate
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Bead Calculator
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Galileo's most decisive telescopic observation: the phases of Venus, 1610-23
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Mantegna, Saint Sebastian (1456–1457)
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VI.7 The Reformation as lecture
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Туркменские серьги гулак-халка: память о войне и устойчивые традиции (Туркменистан)
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Thomas Hobbes
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Francis Bacon at 17 years of age, 1578
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What was printed in the 15th century?
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Lithograph of antlers and weapons
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‘Turkish Café, Tesanj’
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Sonnets by Dante in a Lyric Miscellany (MS Can. Ital. 65)
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Alchemical Pestle and Mortar
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Map of Median Empire (c. 600 BC)
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Natural philosophy and medicine: the Schools Quadrangle
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Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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