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Cabinet - Sources

Drawing of a clothes shop
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The Oxford Philosophical Society
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Transcription: "So Tired."
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Drawing of a Saami settlement on Lake Hammasjarvi
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 1
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T3: Silver didrachm in the name of Pixodaros, satrap of Caria (340-335 BC).
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Automata
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Ecclesiastical territories, 1648
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Wax profile of William of Wykeham
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Venetian territories and trade routes
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Oriel
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Worked in precious threads
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MS Ashmole 399, folios 14r-15r
Brain and ocular system
Bernard Palissy (attributed), Oval Platter
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Natural philosophy and medicine: the university curriculum
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Enquiry about a missing soldier
The spread of printing in Europe, 1455-1500
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Mantegna, Saint Sebastian (1456–1457)
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Suzan Bushnaq’s Artwork (Uzbekistan)
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‘Bulgarian Settlement’
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The world's earliest dated printed book: The Diamond Sutra, 868 CE
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The growth of the empire, c. 559-500 BC
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Follower of David Teniers the Younger, Alchemist in his Laboratory (early 18th century)
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