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Cabinet - Sources

Russian mother with children
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Oxford Physick Garden (1621)
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Nature
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Shrunken Glove (3D)
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university
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Philology: The Antwerp polyglot, 1568-73
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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Ordinary visitors: evidence of handling
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VI.6 The Reformation as disputation
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Georg Christoph Stirn, 1638
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Lithograph of Saami sleds
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From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Salamander Detail from Francis I Gallery
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Statue of Buddha
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Clone of 'Tradescant's Orchard' Herbal
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Astronomical tower clocks, ca 1380-1588
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Pavilion
Inscription of 'Cyrus' at Pasargadae
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Lunar cycle
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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Double pigeon whistle (3-D)
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Palazzo Carignano, Turin (1679)
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‘Roman and Croatian Pottery’
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Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione (c.1514-1515)
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