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Cabinet - Sources

Introduction and Contents
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Oriel
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Sundials
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Tower of the Five Orders, 1613-24
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The end of the Hundred Years' War, 1453
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The oldest sundials
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Ocelot skull
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Вымпел Невада-Семипалатинск (Казахстан)
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T6: Silver stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Stele of Xerxes from the Hierothesion of Antiochus I.
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Saxon woman
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Oxford's defences, 1648
Resettlement Registration Application (Tajikistan)
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Thomas Millington's (1628-1703) plate
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Recording stories and memories
Michael Maier (1568–1622)
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Celestial globe clock, Augsburg, 1584
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Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town (1666-1679)
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Russian egg seller
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Armillae AEquatoriae
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Goblet made from a bezoar, Prague c. 1600
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Ecclesiastical territories, 1648
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Immortal fame
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