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Cabinet - Sources

Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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The mariner's astrolabe: derivation and usage
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Compass in Johannes Stradanus's Nova reperta
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The King and the Bodleian
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Swiss Mercenaries
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T4: Silver tetradrachm struck in western Asia Minor (?), c. 341-334 BC.
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Monographing plants
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Saami woman
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Astronomical tower clocks, ca 1380-1588
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What was printed in the 15th century?
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1979 offer letter
Pellets and Industrial Monotowns (Kazakhstan)
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Russian woman
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From decoration to illustration
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Saami child
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Philosophers guiding research
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Description of the various parts of the large main building
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T6: Silver stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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Robert Boyle's (1627-1691) plate
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Zebra print bikini
Piero della Francesca, Flagellation (c.1455–1460)
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Saami woman
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