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Cabinet - Sources

'The Female Vagrant' (vol. 1)
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Domenico Remps, 1690s
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Johannes Hevelius, Machina coelestis, 1673: Frontispiece
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Michelangelo, Last Judgment (1536-1541)
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III.1 The university curriculum
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New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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Ostrich egg
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 222)
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Sundials in Oxford today
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Quadrant, England, brass (17th century)
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Iconoclasm in the Low Countries
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Clone of Pietro Perugino, The Delivery of Keys to St Peter (1481-1482)
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T26: Silver dishekel, struck at Sidon in the name of Tennes, c. 354-348 BC.
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Books
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BSH2: Silver octadrachm of the Bisaltai (Thrace), fragment, c. 465 BC.
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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A Commedia with a Lyric Collection (MS Can. Ital. 111)
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Crucifix Dial, Adriaan Zeelst (1588)
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Map of Assyrian Empire (824 BC and 671 BC)
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Sewing machine
T16: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the satrap Mazaios, c. 361-333 BC.
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Finnish boy
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Calligraphy
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (print)
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