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Cabinet - Sources

Heavy artillery before gunpowder: the trebuchet
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Rhinoceros horn cup, Prague 1611
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Compass in Johannes Stradanus's Nova reperta
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'Median' dagger from Deve Hüyük
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Clone of Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Transcription: "Mrs Shepherd on Poultry."
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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The first map of 'America': the Waldseemüller map, 1507
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 5, fol. 34v
Johann König, Last Judgement on alabaster, before 1632
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Guercino, Allegory of Painting (c. 1618)
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Pre-civil war college plate
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Medicinal objects in princely collections
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BSH16: Half of silver penannular bracelet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 391(2), fol. 3r
John of Sacrobosco, De Sphaera Mundi (Venice, 1490)
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, April 14, 1915
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Letter to John and Christopher Wordsworth from their father
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T3: Silver didrachm in the name of Pixodaros, satrap of Caria (340-335 BC).
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Shrunken Glove (3D)
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Gunpowder Warfare
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Botanical Gardens
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Map of the New World, 1544
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Zheltoqsan (Kazakhstan)
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