Cabinet - Sources

Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Assyrian relief from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud
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Missions to India
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A cardboard box for concrete poetry
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Model of the ‘Santa María’, wood and cloth
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Bicycle
Perspective Applied: Masaccio, Trinità (c.1426-1428)
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Inscriptions on ritual vessels, 11th century BCE
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A deed box for an unpaid debt to the Bodleian Library
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The 1491 First Edition of Dante's Lyric Poetry
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Printing and salvation in Japan: One Million Pagodas, ca. 764–70 CE
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Drawing of a Croatian woman
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John Gerard's 'The herball' (1633)
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Medium sized azimuth quadrant of brass
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Spain and Portugal Demarcation Lines
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Quadrans Vetus
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Darius' Red Sea Canal Stele
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Missions to China
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Jacopo Antonio Marcello Presents the Manuscript of Strabo to Rene d'Anjou (1459)
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Drawing of a saddled reindeer
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Armillary Sphere
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Seal of Darius I (BM)
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Thomas Browne, 'Posthumous works' (1712)
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