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Cabinet - Sources

Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 7 1915
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Water clocks
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‘Monster House’
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Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’, looking east across the Court
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 399, folios 18r-22r
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The astrolabe
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Zodiac Man
Small quadrant of gilt brass
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Musaeum Tradescantianum, 1656
Houses and totem poles in Masset (glass negative)
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Mercator, World Map (1569)
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Silver and gold phiale from the Lydian Treasure
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Colleges
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A Miscellany Written in Prison (MS Can. Ital. 50)
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Finding the qibla
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The Settala Collection, 1666
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Bead Calculator
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Russian peasant
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JH9: Silver ingot cut from a rod or bracelet.
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The uses of the telescope, 1609-10
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The 1532 Venetian Reprint of the Giuntina
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University of Helmstedt
‘Old Castle of Doboj’
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Frans (II) Francken, c. 1620-25
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