Cabinet - Sources

Early Fellows of the Royal Society
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Tradition
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Terracotta 'Persian rider' from Selemieh
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The early modern siege
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Camera obscura
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Woman and child
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Examination Papers (1978)
Another azimuth quadrant of brass
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Synopsis of the statutes of the University of Oxford in broadsheet form (1635)
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Arrowhead on chain from Deve Hüyük
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 41r
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Beer cellar
Darius' Red Sea Canal Stele
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The Victoria Cross
Voyages of Zheng He (1405-1433)
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The uses of the telescope, 1609-10
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John Tradescant Jr in his Garden
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Verses in praise of Tycho Brahe by Rudolph Caukerchius, fols. 44v-45r.
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John Gerard's 'The herball' (1633)
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Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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The 1527 Giuntina
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Sonnets by Dante in a Lyric Miscellany (MS Can. Ital. 65)
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Tower of the Five Orders, 1613-24
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