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Cabinet - Sources

Nautilus Cup with Eagle Claw (1526-1575)
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BSH6: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class A”), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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Saxon urn
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Terracotta 'Persian rider' from Al Mina (3D)
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Insects
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Queenie Vol. VIII, No. 2
Sextans Chalibeus
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Year Photograph
Another azimuth quadrant of brass
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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Man in the Moon
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Christopher Wren
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From humanist manuscripts to italic pocketbooks: the Aldine press, 1501
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Reformers
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Doll (Kazakhstan)
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T11: Silver stater struck at Tarsos, c. 410-385 BC.
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Introduction
The King and the Bodleian
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Helioscope
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John Donne's 1531 Convivio
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Meydancıkkale
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Oxford's most famous sundial
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Queenette’s Dining Club