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Cabinet - Sources

Rosso Fiorentino, Dead Christ with Angels (1524-1525)
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Jan Brueghel I and Peter Paul Rubens, 1617
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Fragment of the Rose Tapestries, wool and silk (1480s)
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 391(2), fol. 3r
A Copy of the Convivio (MS Ital. d 5)
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Prisoner of War notification
Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, March 31, 1915
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Xerxes and the Persians in "300".
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 41r
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Double pigeon whistle (3-D)
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Rene Descartes
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The Rudolphine Tables (1627)
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‘Monster House’
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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The Oxford Philosophical Society
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Christopher Wren
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Vannuccio Biringuccio, Pirotechnia (1540)
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Hooke's microscope, 1665
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The three perfections: calligraphy
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A Commedia with a Lyric Collection (MS Can. Ital. 111)
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VI.4 The founding event: a university disputation
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Russian sleigh
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Jan Treck, Still Life with a Pewter Jug and Two Porcelain Plates (1649)
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Advancement of Learning (Oxford, 1640)