Cabinet - Sources

Printed model to printed image: Blechnum
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Drawing of classical tombstones
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‘Finnish homestead’
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Bobart the Younger’s Hortus Siccus
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Alchemical Pestle and Mortar
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 40v
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Memphis Customs Account
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Серьги «Самовары»
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Jacob Bobart the Elder (c.1599-1680)
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II.1 Where, and what, is the university?
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Water clocks
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Sundials in antiquity
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Letter from Laurence Dunne
Tabule astronomice Alfonsi Regis (Venice, 1492)
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Oxford Physick Garden (1621)
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T30: Silver shekel, struck at Tyre, c. 425-394 BC.
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Missions to Japan
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 43v
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Saxon women
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court
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Francis Bacon at 17 years of age, 1578
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Anecdote About Homesteading from George Shepherd
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna with Four Saints (1505)
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Silver denarius
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