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Cabinet - Sources

Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’, east end of the Court
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The Right to Homestead
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Lapis Philosophicus
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Carlo Plato, Armillary Sphere (1588)
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Book Forms: Overview
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 391(5), fol. 9r
Luis de Camoens, The Lusiad (London, 1655)
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Double pigeon whistle (3-D)
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Languages
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 210, fol. 9r
Украшения бабушки (Кыргызстан)
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Target
Worked in precious threads
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A deed box for an unpaid debt to the Bodleian Library
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Sources: nature, reason, experience, and tradition
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Battle of White Mountain (8 November 1620)
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Cabinet for Ferdinand II of Tyrol, c. 1582
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New plants from the New World
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Sundials in the Renaissance
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The printing process
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T13: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the general Tiribazos, c. 384-383 BC.
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Monk automaton, probably Spanish, ca 1550
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VI.9 Unintended consequences
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