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Cabinet - Sources

Wellcome MS 290, fol. 53v
Medieval vs early modern fortifications
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Drawing of The Seven Sisters
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1914 and 1914-1915 Star
Armillae Zodiacales
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III.2 Grammar as key to the tower of learning
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Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Robert Hanley Hall, 11 June 1899
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Vatican Library, Pal.lat. 1369, fol. 148r
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Astronomical Clock of Su Song (1020-1101)
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The world's earliest dated printed book (868)
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BSH7: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class B””), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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Haida helmet (3-D)
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14. Oil paint
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Oxford as a Window on Seventeenth-Century Science
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William Holman Hunt, Study of four Eastern figures (c. 1870)
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Portolan chart of Jorge de Aguiar (1492)
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Clone of A Musket Ball Puller in Dresden
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Fust and Schoeffer in Mainz, 1457-1466
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Saami couple
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Europe c. 1700
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Jacopo Pontormo, The Deposition from the Cross (1525-1528)
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VI.3 The founder: a university professor
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Examination Papers (1978)