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Cabinet - Sources

Porter's note
Anatomical models
Saami woman
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Anatomical engravings
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 406-7)
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The Geography of Claudius Ptolemy
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Michelangelo, Vestibule to the Laurentian Library (1559)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 164)
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Arba (Kazakhstan)
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The celestial sphere: the fifth element the geocentric cosmology
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Printed model to printed image: Mimosa
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Clone of Portable Sundials
John Parkinson's 'Theatrum botanicum' (1640)
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Music: printing with movable type, 1501
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Drawing of mountains
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Studiolo of Francesco I: The Fire Wall
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Bramante, Tempietto (c. 1502)
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Bicycle
The King and the Bodleian
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Thomas Millington's (1628-1703) plate
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The first image of a Printing Shop
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John Rose's (1619-1677) plate
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Sundials in the Renaissance
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Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Robert Hanley Hall, 14 December 1899
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