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Cabinet - Sources

Picture postcards
Jan Brueghel I and Peter Paul Rubens, 1617
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Anonymous 'Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis' (1648)
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Towers of the Orders before Merton
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Timekeeping devices
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Natural philosophy and medicine: the Schools Quadrangle
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V.2 The 'studia humanitatis': what was at stake?
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Transcription: "Mother's Holiday."
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Drawing of Lake Hammasjarvi
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1979 offer letter
Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica cover (in depth)
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Sundials
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Медаль материнства первой степени (Центральная Азия)
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Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)
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BSH6: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class A”), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court
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Xylography (woodblock printing)
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Lantern clock with pyramid stand (c. 1700)
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Fall of Constantinople, 1453
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Xylography before typography, 1423 and after
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Telegrams
New medicines, new collections: From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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The key to miniaturisation: the Fusee, early 15th century
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Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
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