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Cabinet - Sources

Wellcome MS 49, folios 35v-37v
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Bill of account from the Hudson’s Bay Company to Edward Burnett Tylor, 9 November 1900
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Giambologna, The Rape of the Sabine Woman (1582)
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Marshall Refracting Microscope, c. 1715
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Польский молитвенник (Казахстан)
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 21 1915
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7. Distillation
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2. Magnetic Compass
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Exhibition case
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Duke Humfrey's Library before Bodley
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Oxford as a Window on Seventeenth-Century Science
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Texture of plants
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Tower of the Five Orders, 1613-24
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Adhai-dvipa: Jain diagram of the world
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 40v
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Melozzo da Forlì, Sixtus IV Appointing Platina as Prefect of the Vatican Library (1477)
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University botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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The First 20 Years, 1450-1470: Earliest specimens in print
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‘Konjica, and Bridge over the Narenta’
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Imser Planetary Clock, ca 1554-61
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Marsilio Ficino, De amore
Silver and gold phiale from the Lydian Treasure
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Sonnets by Dante in a Lyric Miscellany (MS Can. Ital. 65)
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Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, c. 1490
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