Cabinet - Sources

Piero della Francesca, Flagellation (c.1455–1460)
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Drawing of a mountain
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Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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The Indian Institute
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‘Peoples of the USSR’ – Postage Stamp Collection (Central Asia)
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Glory to Belgium
1979 offer letter
Felice Feliciano, Alphabetum Romanum
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Mercury and Sulphur in Splendor Solis
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Francis Bacon, c. 1618
Technological innovation, c. 1580
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Finding the qibla
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William Hogarth - The Analysis of Beauty (1753) Plate 1
Ordinary visitors: evidence of handling
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From Italy to Germany, 1390: the precondition of the print revolution
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Instruments: preserved in the Museo Galileo
Nabonidus Chronicle (BM)
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Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’, looking east across the Court
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BSH2: Silver octadrachm of the Bisaltai (Thrace), fragment, c. 465 BC.
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The First 20 Years, 1450-1470: Earliest specimens in print
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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Spots on the sun, 1612-13
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The Right to Homestead
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Archibald Pitcairne's (1652-1713) plate
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