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Cabinet - Sources

John of Sacrobosco, De Sphaera Mundi (Venice, 1490)
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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T26: Silver dishekel, struck at Sidon in the name of Tennes, c. 354-348 BC.
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The Drake Chair
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Emblem 'Am I not a Man and a Brother'?
Reformers
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Cilicia: Sites and Sources
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The Campaigns of the Nabonidus Chronicle
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Russian women
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'The Flight of the Vestal Virgins,' Biagio di Antonio Tucci
Johannes Kepler, 'Harmonices Mundi' (1619)
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BSH16: Half of silver penannular bracelet, from the Black Sea hoard
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The problem of mobility: Mons Meg, 1449-97
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Clone of Bezoar
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Heinrich Khunrath (c. 1560–1605)
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Drawing of mountains
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Forte Michelangelo, Civitavecchia, Roma (1508-1535)
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Eurasia and Africa c. 1025 AD
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Thomas Hobbes
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Xerxes and the Persians in "300".
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The surrender of Oxford, May-June 1646
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Francois Dubois, St Bartolomew's Day Massacre (24 August 1572)
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Elephant's tooth
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Iffley Road Annex – Cardo Building