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Cabinet - Sources

3. Gunpowder
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Year Photograph
Letter from Laurence Dunne
Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Custom-made phonebook (Kazakhstan)
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The 1727 Reprint of the Giuntina
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Saami man
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Comparing fruits: carrot family
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Willem Piso and Georg Marggraf's 'Historia naturalis Brasiliae' (1648)
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Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 939 (section 5, verso)
Petrarch’s Canzoniere and Triumphs with one sonnet attributed to Dante (MS Can. Ital. 70)
Transcription: "Mother's Hens" May 26 1915
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Medieval Arabic cartography, 1154 CE: sophisticated representation of an expanding world
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Arts End, 1610-12
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A cardboard box for concrete poetry
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Ottoman Turkish map: fragment of the world map of Piri Reis, 1513
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Raphael, Drapery study (c. 1508)
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Anatomical models
Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, ca 1620
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Pharmacies and Alchemical Laboratories
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Lithograph of antlers and weapons
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Rice fields (Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan)
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 5, fol. 34v