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Cabinet - Sources

Different "Dantes" for the 20th Century
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Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione (c.1514-1515)
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Adhai-dvipa: Jain diagram of the world
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Carlo Plato, Armillary Sphere (1588)
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Robert Plot
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Tradition
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Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’, looking east across the Court
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Seal of Darius I (BM)
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3D scans of rock structures
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 41r
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William Wordsworth, The Prelude (London, 1850)
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Zebra print bikini
The mariner's astrolabe: derivation and usage
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August of Saxony by Lucas Cranach jr., 1572
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 114)
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Надгробие Шаршемби уулу Абдыкадыра (Кыргызстан)
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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Map of Median Empire (c. 600 BC)
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Russian man
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BSH7: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class B””), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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Clone of San Zeno Wheel (Verona, c. 1450)
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Saami man
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Musaeum Calceolarii, 1622
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 7 1915
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