Cabinet - Sources

Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 41r
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Polish Prayer Book (Kazakhstan)
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Children in uniform
'Star forts', 'gunpowder fortifications', and the 'trace italienne'
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Leo X by Raphael (c. 1518)
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BSH5: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment, c. 450–425 BC.
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Instruments: described in the Saggi
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Inscriptions on ritual vessels, 11th century BCE
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Astronomical tower clocks, ca 1380-1588
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Lodestone and iron nails
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The woodcut as high art form: Dürer, 1498
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Oxford's defences, 1644: a garbled map
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Apadana audience relief
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David Loggan (1634–1692)
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Translation of the Qu'ran by Sayyid Mahmud Tarazi (Uzbekistan/India)
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Drawing of the church at Piteå
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Silver denarius
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Helioscope
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Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Robert Hanley Hall, 11 June 1899
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The mural, or Tychonian, quadrant
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New plants, new medicines: tobacco
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Man in the Moon
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Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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University Church
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