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Cabinet - Sources

Bicycle
Robert Hooke
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Qingbai Bowl, Southern Song dynasty, porcelain (12th Century)
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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JH8: Silver bar-ingot, cut down to size from a larger bar.
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‘Croatian Clothes-shop, Agram’
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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Saami group
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Richard Verstegan, Theatrum Crudelitatem Haereticorum Nostri Temporis (1587)
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Chinese Alchemy
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Plate to print: process
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Saxon urn
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What was printed in the 15th century?
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Giambologna, The Rape of the Sabine Woman (1582)
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Convocation House, 1634-7
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Beyond Mainz: The Diaspora of Printing Shops
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Cells
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Heinrich Khunrath (c. 1560–1605)
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Cylinder seal with royal hero and Bes figure
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Clone of The four terrestrial elements
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Piero della Francesca, Flagellation (c.1455–1460)
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An Orthopaedic Stretcher, ca 1548-85
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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IV.5 The method for debating questions: the disputation
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