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Cabinet - Sources

Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 40v
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Silver denarius
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Nova reperta: title page
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Family portraits
Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Wellcome MS 49, folios 35v-37v
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 28 August 1902
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Bodleian, MS Canon. Misc. 248, fol. 42r
Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Mausoleum of Hadrian
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Drawing of Johanninpoika Marataja
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Origin of coins in the Jordan Hoard
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T7: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Kuprlli of Xanthos, c. 480-420 BC.
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Oxford's Physick Garden
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John Tradescant the Elder
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Head of a fly
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IV.5 The method for debating questions: the disputation
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Prince Rupert's (1619-1682) plate
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Hugh Robinson's Textbook (1616)
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Saami child
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Cotton Combines (Tajikistan)
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The phases of Venus, 1610-23
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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 2
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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