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Cabinet - Sources

Prince Rupert's (1619-1682) plate
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The woodcut as high art form: Dürer, 1498
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Thomas Millington's (1628-1703) plate
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Finnish family
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Robert Boyle, Sceptical Chymist, 1661
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Background: Botany in Ancient and Medieval Europe
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens" May 26 1915
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Vannuccio Biringuccio, Pirotechnia (1540)
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Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum Cover
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The King and the Bodleian
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Firearms: the earliest European image, 1326-7
T31: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the Egyptian satrap Sabakes, c.340-333 BC.
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BSH5: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment, c. 450–425 BC.
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Saami woman
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Gunpowder weapons in 15th-century Korea
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Seth Ward
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Clock with Automated Procession of Bacchus, ca 1580
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Studiolo of Isabella d'Este
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Visitors to the Bodleian
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Florentine Codex, Nahuas infected with smallpox (c. 1585)
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 28 August 1902
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Indian Institute
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