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Cabinet - Sources

From Italy to Germany, 1390: the precondition of the print revolution
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Saami couple
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Saami woman
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T2: Silver tetradrachm in the name of Idrieus, satrap of Caria (351-344 BC).
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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The woodcut as high art form: Dürer, 1498
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Letter from John Wordsworth to his father Revd Wordsworth
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Stomach and digestive system
Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Oxford's most famous sundial
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Medieval Arabic cartography, 1154 CE: sophisticated representation of an expanding world
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Marshall Refracting Microscope, c. 1715
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Tradition
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Siege of Constantinople (1453)
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Silver and gold phiale from the Lydian Treasure
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‘Finnish homestead’
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Russian woman
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Drawing of a Bulgarian man
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court (stereograph)
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Prague, 1584: Celestial globe clock
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Lithograph of Saami fishermen
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Displaying ‘kindreds and affinities’
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 19 1915
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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