Cabinet - Sources

Chinese books before paper
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Voyages of Zheng He (1405-1433)
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Autograph inscription by Sir Henry Wotton to the Bodleian Library, 15 August 1633
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking south-east across the Court
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'Star forts', 'gunpowder fortifications', and the 'trace italienne'
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court
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The transmission of knowledge: From manuscript to print
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Conical dial
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Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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BSH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, c. 450–425 BC.
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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Young soldier in the Middle East
Bread roll
The Pakhtakhor-79 Monument (Uzbekistan/Ukraine)
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Cylinder seal with royal hero and Bes figure
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Drawing of a clothes shop
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Doll (Kazakhstan)
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Winchester College in the 17th Century
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Zebra print bikini
Arabic map: the Maghreb Chart, ca 1325-50
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The newly acquired Gothic coffer
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Andrea Palladio, Villa La Rotonda, Vicenza (1567-1585)
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A map of the spread of printing in Europe
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