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Cabinet - Sources

Clone of Portable Sundials
William Gilpin, Observations on the River Wye and Several Parts of South Wales (London, 1789)
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Drawing of a Saami cradle
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The Five Orders of Architecture: Sebastiano Serlio (1537/1611)
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Javelin-head from Deve Hüyük
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Clone of A Musket Ball Puller in Dresden
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Oldenburg's correspondence
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Theophrastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus (1493-1541)
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Lithograph of a Swedish man and woman
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Silver oinochoe with kouros handle from the Lydian Treasure
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John Parkinson's 'Theatrum botanicum' (1640)
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Verses in praise of Tycho Brahe by Rudolph Caukerchius, fols. 44v-45r.
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Saami group
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Russian mother with children
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V.1 ‘Humanism’: an educational curriculum
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Double pigeon whistle (3-D)
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The three perfections: calligraphy
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, March 31, 1915
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ABC Books for Bukharan Jews (Central Asia)
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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The Woman Who Did
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Netsuke representing Tanuki, the raccoon dog (3-D)
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 2
Image for Title page of the 1715 reprint of Robert Morison (1680) Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis pars secunda seu Herbarum distributio nova,: per tabulas cognationis & affinitatis ex libro naturae observata & detecta. Oxonii, E theatro Sheldoniano.