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Cabinet - Sources

Petrus Severinus, Idea medicinae philosophicae, 1571
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Europe c. 1700
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II.5 'Authentica habita': Academic garments to distinguish town from gown
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The astrolabe
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Convocation House, 1634-7
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Cyrus Cylinder from Babylon (BM)
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Theodor de Bry, Oppidum Secota (c. 1590)
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Tradition
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Modelling the movements of the heavens
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Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Robert Hanley Hall, 11 June 1899
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Missions to Japan
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Cream seller
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Jan van der Straet, The Alchemist's Laboratory (1570)
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Finding the qibla
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 3
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
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A map of the spread of printing in Europe
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V. Schools Quadrangle
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Folly
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John Tradescant the Younger with Roger Friend and a Collection of Exotic Shells
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Ismail al-Jazari's Elephant clock, ca 1200
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Курт (Kaзахстан)
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The mariner's astrolabe and Portuguese exploration
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Salamander Detail from Francis I Gallery
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