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Cabinet - Sources

The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Professor B F McGuinness
T12: Silver stater struck at Mallos in the name of the general Tiribazos, c. 384-383 BC.
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Clone of Oxford Physick Garden (1621)
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 42r
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Arba (Kazakhstan)
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Lithograph of men hunting sea lions
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Raphael, Drapery study (c. 1508)
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Clone of Medieval gardens
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Revolving azimuth quadrant
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John Donne's 1531 Convivio
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Map of the New World, 1544
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Milk Guard [ and Milk ] (Kazakhstan)
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Quadratura circuli (1643): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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Epilogue: 1470 and after
Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Ptolemy World Map, 1540
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BSH11: Silver ingot (ovoid).
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Comparing fruits: carrot family
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The mariner's astrolabe: derivation and usage
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 374)
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British Victory Medal
Trumpet
Sidereus Nuncius, 1610
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