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Cabinet - Sources

Book Forms: Handscrolls
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T26: Silver dishekel, struck at Sidon in the name of Tennes, c. 354-348 BC.
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Three-pillared compound microscope, 1760s
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Feuerwerkbuch (mid 15th century)
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Hooke's Micrographia, 1665
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Synopsis of the statutes of the University of Oxford in broadsheet form (1635)
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Key innovation: the escapement
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Rhodes Building at Oriel College, High Street
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Proscholium and its facade, 1610-12
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Piero della Francesca, Flagellation (c.1455–1460)
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Introduction: architecture becomes a liberal art
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Robert Morison (1620-83)
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Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
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Vatican Library, Pal.lat. 1369, fol. 148r
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Background: Botany in Ancient and Medieval Europe
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Cushion starfish
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Sundials in 17th-century Oxford
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Saami group
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Russian peasant
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The Bibliophile Jean Grolier (1479-1565)
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The Oxford Philosophical Society
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Henry Power, 'Experimental philosophy, in three books' (1664)
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