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Cabinet - Sources

Finnish man
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William Lisle Bowles, Fourteen sonnets (Bath, 1789)
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Design of Stjerneborg
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Saami bride and groom
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Fanny's Scales
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Queenie Vol. VII, No. 2
Writing Systems
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Index of Prohibited Books
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Morison's 'Sciagraphia'
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Plate to print: carrot
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court
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Rhodes House, South Parks Road
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 43v
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Theodor de Bry, Oppidum Secota (c. 1590)
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (print)
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Hemispherical sundial
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The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
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Tycho Brahe's autograph verses of presentation to the Doge of Venice
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Printed model to printed image: Blechnum
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T5: Gold stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Tyranny of the Duke of Alva
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BSH8: Silver stater of Soloi (Cilicia), c. 440–420 BC.
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Queen Elizabeth I Feeding the Dutch Cow
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​Boats on the Torne river
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