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Cabinet - Sources

Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 3
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‘Head of Slavonian’
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The Gutenberg Bible
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Plate to print: process
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Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)
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Innumerable new stars
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Drawing of Lake Vänern
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Clone of Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Wenzel Jamnitzer (c.1508-1585), Silver writing box
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Clone of New plants from the New World
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Oswald Croll, Basilica chymica, 1609
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Vatican Library, MS Pal.lat. 1325, fol. 349v
Saami group
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V.1 ‘Humanism’: an educational curriculum
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The Star-Spangled Banner
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South Porch, University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, 1637
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Bicycle
A map of the spread of printing in Europe
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The Victoria Cross
Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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Ecclesiastical territories: the palace of the prince-bishop of Würzburg
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Divinity School
Drawing of a Turkish café
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Tomb of Cyrus at Pasargadae
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