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Cabinet - Sources

Descartes' Discourse (1637)
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James Hannington - St. Peter's College
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Saami woman
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Mariner’s astrolabe, Spain, bronze (c. 1600)
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Plant to drawing: Geranium and Sideritis
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The Victoria Cross
Drawing of flax being prepared
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Sewing machine
III.4 The Three Higher Faculties: Medicine, Law, and Theology
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David Loggan’s ‘Hortus Botanicus' (1675)
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Astronomical Clock of Su Song (1020-1101)
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Robert Hooke, 'Micrographia' (1665)
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Official letters
Перевод Дюшена (Таджикистан)
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Tomb of Cyrus at Pasargadae
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Philip II of Spain by Titian (1549-1550)
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Nereid Monument, early 4th century BC.
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Title page (vol. 1)
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Delftware Vase, Netherlands, tin-glazed earthenware with underglaze blue decoration (c. 1680)
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New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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Head of a fly
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Inscription (Uzbekistan)
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Leo X by Raphael (c. 1518)
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