Cabinet - Sources

Dedication (cont.)
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Wellcome MS 290, fol. 53v
Russian servant
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Box in the form of a crab, 16th-17th century
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Printed model to printed image: Senecio
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Ostrich egg
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (print)
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 3
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Jan van Kessel, the Elder, c. 1650-3.
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The King and the Bodleian
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Alchemy, the Four Elements, and the Tria Prima
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Clone of Oxford Physick Garden (1621)
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New-world diseases and treatments
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British Victory Medal
Biblioteca Malatestiana, Cesena
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Saami man
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Samovar (RSFSR/Afghanistan, ca.1925)
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BSH6: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class A”), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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Hemispherical bowl from Deve Hüyük
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Missions to China
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Inflow water clock
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The world's earliest dated printed book: The Diamond Sutra, 868 CE
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