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Cabinet - Sources

Introduction and Contents
Image for Morison's Historia
Three medals: Pip, Squeak and Wilfred
JH2: Silver tetradrachm of Akanthos (Chalcidice), fragment, c. 470 BC.
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Val and Ken Wyatt
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Central Oxford in 1643
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Portolan chart of Jorge de Aguiar (1492)
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T12: Silver stater struck at Mallos in the name of the general Tiribazos, c. 384-383 BC.
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Xylography (woodblock printing)
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Map of religious divisions in the Swiss Confederation (1536)
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, March 31, 1915
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Resettlement Registration Application (Tajikistan)
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Drawing to printed image: Blephilia
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Karaburun Tumulus II, early 5th century BC.
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The Bodleian and the King
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T23: Silver 1/32 siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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Concrete Fences (Kyrgyzstan)
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Innovation and Printing
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2. Magnetic Compass
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Drawing of an Alchemical House from Libavius (1606)
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Luis de Camoens, The Lusiad (London, 1655)
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Francis Bacon, c. 1618
Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 18 May 1899
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