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Cabinet - Sources

Al-Idrīsī's world map, 1152
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Proof, plate editing and print
Image for Proof, published plate and reverse of the copper printing plate of ‘GRAMINA LOLIACEA, DACTYLA, PHALARIS, PANICUM, ijsq[ue] congenera’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 8, Tab. 3). Plants drawn and copper plate engraved
Bodleian Library, MS Canon. Ital. 258, fol. 32r
Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
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Technological innovation, c. 1580
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Drawing of pottery vessels and other items
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Embriachi Casket (3D)
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Statue of Darius from Susa
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Saami cradle
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A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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Origins of coins in the Black Sea Hoard
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Swiss Mercenaries
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Queenie Vol. VIII, No. 5
Morisonian Herbarium
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New plants, new medicines
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Gunpowder weapons in 15th-century Korea
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 372)
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Robert Morison (1620-1683)
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Outflow water clock, ca 1350 BCE
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Lithograph of Saami men
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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Rice fields (Central Asia)
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Опиумная банкнота (Туркестан)
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Cotton scale (Tajikistan)
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