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Cabinet - Sources

Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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South Porch, University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, 1637
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Immortal fame
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Houses and totem poles in Masset
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Phoenicia: Sites and Sources
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New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Archer Baker, 18 January 1901
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Глиняная свистулька (Узбекистан и Таджикистан)
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The Savilian Professors' Houses, 1672-1854, and Halley's Observatory
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Printed model to printed image: Senecio
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‘Roman and Croatian Pottery’
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Clone of An Orthopaedic Stretcher from the Dresden Kunstkammer
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Medal of “Motherhood” (Central Asia)
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Boat on the Kitinen river
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Firearms: the earliest European image, 1326-7
The Swedish Empire, 1560-1815
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Anatomy theatre as museum
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John Wilkins
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Visitors to the Bodleian
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Маца (Казахстан)
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A mathematical model?
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Sources: nature, reason, experience, and tradition
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Central Oxford in 1643
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