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Cabinet - Sources

"Tutto Dante"
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Appendix: 'On architectural structures suitable for astronomical observations', folio 40r
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Saami mother and child
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An Ethiopian mahdar
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Medieval European cartography, c. 1280: speculative and symbolic
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Plant to drawing: Geranium and Sideritis
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Commemorative postage stamps with architecture of Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
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Sundials in Oxford today
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The problem of mobility: Mons Meg, 1449-97
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A supra-national entity
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Great steel quadrant, inscribed in a square, also of steel, and revolving in azimuth
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Digitising objects
Drawing of a Croatian woman
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BSH11: Silver ingot (ovoid).
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II.6 Academic hierarchies
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Маца (Казахстан)
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Promotional Immigration Literature and Ephemera
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Map of the New World, 1544
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Domenico Remps, 1690s
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David Loggan’s ‘Hortus Botanicus' (1675)
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From humanist manuscripts to italic pocketbooks: the Aldine press, 1501
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Drawing of a warehouse
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Albrecht Dürer, Erasmus of Rotterdam (1526)
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Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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