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Cabinet - Sources

New plants from the New World
Image for Typical folio of specimens from Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus, mostly labelled in the hand of Jacob Bobart the Younger.
T23: Silver 1/32 siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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Mould
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Proof, plate editing and print
Image for Proof, published plate and reverse of the copper printing plate of ‘GRAMINA LOLIACEA, DACTYLA, PHALARIS, PANICUM, ijsq[ue] congenera’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 8, Tab. 3). Plants drawn and copper plate engraved
Tomb of Cyrus at Pasargadae
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Elephant Automaton Clock, Augsburg, 1600-10
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Andrea Palladio, Il Redentore Church, Venice (1575-1576)
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Introduction
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Saami woman
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Terracotta 'Persian rider' from Al Mina (3D)
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Rhodes Building at Oriel College, High Street
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Notes on ‘totemism’ by Edward Burnett Tylor
Image for Tylor Papers, Box 9, Item 9.4r–9.6r
Index of Prohibited Books
Image for Index Librorum Prohibitorum, Venice, 1564
Title Page of 12 Articles
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Lateral Wall Gyri Model - Functional
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Natural philosophy and medicine: the university curriculum
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Drawing of a graveyard
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Book Forms: Folded Books
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Arba (Kazakhstan)
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18. The astrolabe
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Astronomical tower clocks, ca 1380-1588
Image for Clone of Astronomical clock, Lyon
Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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Saxon woman
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