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Cabinet - Sources

Sundials in 17th-century Oxford
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Clone of Jardin des Plantes in Paris (1636)
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 5, 1915
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Central Oxford in 1578
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Newton's prism experiment
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Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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Newton's Alchemical Sublimations
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The 1514 Appendix Aldina
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 200)
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The 1491 First Edition of Dante's Lyric Poetry
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Philip II's El Escorial (1564-1584)
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Crucifixion in coral
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BSH6: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class A”), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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Printed model to printed image: Senecio
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Nova reperta: title page
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Tables (Tajikistan)
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Finnish family
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50 Iranian Rial Banknote of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
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Daniel Sennert (1572-1637)
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Popes
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Printed model to printed image: Mimosa
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Visitors to the Bodleian
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