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Cabinet - Sources

3. Gunpowder
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Arcus Bipartitus
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Year Photograph
What was printed in the 15th century?
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 374)
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Jardin des Plantes in Paris (1636)
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Lithograph of Stockholm
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Bird feather fan
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The Oxford syllabus as circulus disciplinarum, 1635
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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T26: Silver dishekel, struck at Sidon in the name of Tennes, c. 354-348 BC.
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Orozbakov’s Manas (Kyrgyzstan)
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BSH10: Silver siglos, probably minted at Sardeis. Mid-late 5th century BC.
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Movable type
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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The Bodleian and the King
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Fragment of the Rose Tapestries, wool and silk (1480s)
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Explore the Display Case
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Petrarch’s Canzoniere and Triumphs with one sonnet attributed to Dante (MS Can. Ital. 70)
Anabaptism in Early Modern Europe
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New plants, new medicines: tobacco
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The Houses of Tradescant and Ashmole, South Lambeth
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Timeline
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Plan of Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
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