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Cabinet - Sources

Divinity School
Missions in the Americas
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 26, 1915
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Classical architecture arrives in Oxford, 1599
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China under the Song Dynasty
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 21 1915
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Automaton monk, probably Spanish, ca 1550
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Drawing of the interior of a church
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Cabinet for Ferdinand II of Tyrol, c. 1582
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 12, 1915
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19. Copper engraving
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Russian man and woman
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The Rosary
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Albrecht Dürer, Rhinoceros, 1515
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Giambologna, The Rape of the Sabine Woman (1582)
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The parallatic or ruler-instrument
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Cylinder seal with royal hero and Bes figure
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Gaudy 1988
Giovanni Bellini, Madonna with Four Saints (1505)
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Official letters
Key innovation: the escapement
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The Savilian Professorships, 1619
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Star Fort of Bourtange, Netherlands (1593)
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Clone of Oxford Physick Garden (1621)
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