Cabinet - Sources

Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society, 1667
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Saami boy
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Index of Prohibited Books
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Box in the form of a crab, 16th-17th century
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Cap Badge
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Rhodes House, South Parks Road
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Ecclesiastical territories: the bishop of Würzburg as a reforming prince, 1573-1617
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BSH11: Silver ingot (ovoid).
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Letters from Samuel Bodger
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Oswald Croll, Basilica chymica, 1609
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The world's earliest dated printed book: The Diamond Sutra, 868 CE
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Clement VII by Sebastiano del Piombo (c. 1531)
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9. Stirrups
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Antiquarianism in the Aegean
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Robert Morison (1620-83)
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The Astronomical Clock of Richard of Wallingford (d. 1336)
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Martin Luther (1483-1546) by Lucas Cranach the Elder
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12. Olive oil
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Entrance Book (3D)
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3. Gunpowder
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The transmission of knowledge: From manuscript to print
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Star Fort of Palmanova (1593)
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VI.5 Early milestones: Reformation disputations
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