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Cabinet - Sources

Thomas Browne, 'Religio Medici' (1644)
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university
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John Donne's 1531 Convivio
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Mariner’s astrolabe, Spain, bronze (c. 1600)
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Indian Institute, Broad Street
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Ашкеназские евреи в Центральной Азии
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Houses and totem poles in Masset
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President Nixon
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Dante Scholars in Oxford
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11. The Windmill
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V.1 ‘Humanism’: an educational curriculum
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Another parallatic or ruler-instrument which shows the altitudes as well as the azimuths
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Lithograph of antlers and weapons
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Quadratura circuli (1643): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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The mariner's astrolabe: derivation and usage
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Execution of Levellers, Gloucester Green, 1649
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III.2 Grammar as key to the tower of learning
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John of Sacrobosco, De Sphaera Mundi (Venice, 1490)
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Plant to printed image: Helichrysum
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BSH15: Silver pennanular bracelet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Haida Helmet (3D)
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Receipt for a payment to Robert Hanley Hall, 6 December 1900
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