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Cabinet - Sources

Writing For and By Women
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Inscription of 'Cyrus' at Pasargadae
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Winchester College in the 17th Century
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The uses of the telescope, 1609-10
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‘Samovar’ earrings
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Pietro da Cortona, Ceiling of Palazzo Barberini, Rome (1633-1639)
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Hooke's microscope, 1665
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Synopsis of the statutes of the University of Oxford in broadsheet form (1635)
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The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
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Saami group
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Nixon’s the charm
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Bobart the Younger’s Hortus Siccus
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Russian man and boy
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T27: Silver dishekel, struck at Sidon in the name of the satrap Mazaios, 336/5 BC.
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Queenie Vol. VII, No. 2
Mary Murphy's Album
Male reproductive system
The arts: liberal and mechanical
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Studiolo of Francesco I: Prometheus and Nature
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T30: Silver shekel, struck at Tyre, c. 425-394 BC.
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Anatomical engravings
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Attic Lekythos from Deve Hüyük
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Introduction
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Clone of Jardin des Plantes in Paris (1636)
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