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Cabinet - Sources

Archibald Pitcairne's (1652-1713) plate
Image for Plate of ‘PLANTÆ MULTICAPSULARIS POLYSPERMÆ’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 12, Tab. 12) sponsored by Archibald Pitcairne (1652-1713).
Бетонные заборы (Кыргызстан)
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The Pakhtakhor-79 Monument (Uzbekistan/Ukraine)
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'Greco-Persian' gem: Persian with bird
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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Archbishop William Laud and the Bishops' War (1639-40)
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Johann Daniel Mylius (c. 1583–1642)
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Introduction
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Divinity School, 1427-83
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Macrocosm and microcosm
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university
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Anthony Wood (1632-1695) and Postmaster's Hall
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Silver
Key innovation: the escapement
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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JH8: Silver bar-ingot, cut down to size from a larger bar.
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Банка с курдючным жиром (Казахстан)
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Drawing of Bosnian people
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Polish man smoking a pipe
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Astrolabe table clock
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Roadshow overview
Star Fort of Bourtange, Netherlands (1593)
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Sidereus Nuncius, 1610
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The Gutenberg Bible
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