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Cabinet - Sources

The astrolabe
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'Tradescant's Orchard' Herbal
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Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, MS C 54, fol. 41v
The Schools Quadrangle, 1613-24
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Drawing of Johanninpoika Marataja
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John Gerard, The herball or Generall historie of plantes (London, 1597)
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Wellcome MS 290, fol. 52v
Parmigianino, Madonna of the Long Neck (1534-1540)
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The Bobarts' Herbaria
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Clone of Humanist botany: the case of Dioscorides
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‘Finnish homestead’
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Columbian exchanges
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Leo X by Raphael (c. 1518)
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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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Embriachi Casket (3D)
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Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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The growth of the empire, c. 559-500 BC
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Clypeus ploti Fossil
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Musaeum Tradescantianum, 1656
Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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Building the Bodleian
Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 28 August 1902
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Scales Narrative
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Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole reproduced in E. B. Tylor’s article, ‘Note on the Haida Totem-Post...’
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