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Cabinet - Sources

Thomas Millington's (1628-1703) plate
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Paper in Chinese folk culture
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The not so ‘dark side’
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Box in the form of a crab, 16th-17th century
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The first superintendent: Jacob Bobart the Elder (c. 1599-1680)
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From the Bobarts' Herbaria to Morison's Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis (1699)
Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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‘Head of Brenese Peasant’
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Naqsh-e Rustam: Achaemenid Tombs and Sasanian Reliefs.
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Printing and salvation in Japan: One Million Pagodas, ca. 764–70 CE
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BSH12: Silver bar-ingot (cut down).
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Clone of Instruments for Dissection
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Models of Saami women
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Dutch Trade Routes
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The Bodleian and the King
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Ferrante Imperato, 1599
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, fol. 259v
Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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Church at Tornio
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T27: Silver dishekel, struck at Sidon in the name of the satrap Mazaios, 336/5 BC.
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Clone of An Orthopaedic Stretcher from the Dresden Kunstkammer
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Prague Astronomical Clock (1410 onwards)
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‘Samovar’ earrings
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Cushion starfish
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