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Cabinet - Sources

Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 21 1915
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Wooden Cross (3D)
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Newton's Alchemical Sublimations
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Novum Testamentum Graece (Strasbourg, 1524)
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Planning the New Basilica
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Prince Rupert's (1619-1682) plate
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 1
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Письма солдата (Казахстан)
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Letter to John and Christopher Wordsworth from their father
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Princess Mary Gift Tin (3D)
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 7 1915
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Saami woman
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Spots on the sun, 1612-13
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Women's First (and only) Eight, 1982
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Speculum academicum (1638): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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Mappa Mundi
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Shrunken Glove (3D)
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Clone of Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica cover (in depth)
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Origins of paper
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Florentine Codex, Nahuas infected with smallpox (c. 1585)
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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The Bodleian and the King
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2. Magnetic Compass
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Javelin-head from Deve Hüyük
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