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Cabinet - Sources

Map of the New World, 1544
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Verses in praise of Tycho Brahe by Rudolph Caukerchius
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Russian-Tajik Dictionary for Philosophical Terminology (Tajikistan)
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Enquiry about a missing soldier
Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)
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Transcription: "Mother's Holiday."
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Drawing of The Seven Sisters
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The Savilian Professors' Houses, 1672-1854, and Halley's Observatory
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Elephant Automaton Clock, Augsburg, 1600-10
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Drawing of Bosnian people
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2. Magnetic Compass
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Fragment of the Rose Tapestries, wool and silk (1480s)
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Drawing of the church at Piteå
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Wellcome MS 49, folios 35v-37v
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A poetic monument to Soviet post-modernism (Tajikistan)
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Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica cover (in depth)
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Promotional Immigration Literature and Ephemera
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Robert Boyle, Sceptical Chymist, 1661
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Portable Sundials
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Prisoner of War notification
Hugh Robinson's Textbook (1616)
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Colleges
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Automata
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