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Cabinet - Sources

The Victoria Cross
Transcription: "Hens Should Cackle All The Winter."
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Selden End, 1634-7
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Mathematical model (from 1620)
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Instruments: preserved in the Museo Galileo
Frunze Museum, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
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Statue of Darius from Susa
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking north-east across the Court
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Different "Dantes" for the 20th Century
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Statues of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, Canterbury Quadrangle, St John's College
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Astrological tool
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Interior of Grote Kerk, Haarlem by Pieter Saenredam
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Field postcard
VI.4 The founding event: a university disputation
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Haida helmet (3-D)
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Mantegna, Saint Sebastian (1456–1457)
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Silver oinochoe with kouros handle from the Lydian Treasure
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Dedication (concluded)
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Armillae AEquatoriae
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Year Photograph
Mariner’s astrolabe, Spain, bronze (c. 1600)
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The British War Medal
Automata
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Cells
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