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Cabinet - Sources

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.
V.3 Grammar: a window on the ancient world
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Frans Post, A Sugar Mill Driven by a Small River (c.1650-1655)
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The five orders and the five platonic solids: 'Mathematical Model', 1620
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Petrarch’s Canzoniere and Triumphs with one sonnet attributed to Dante (MS Can. Ital. 70)
Female reproductive system
Ewer formed from a Seychelles nut, Prague, 1602
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Fanny's Chickens
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Ismail al-Jazari's Elephant clock, ca 1200
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Article featuring Helen Carmichael
'Urne-Buriall and The Garden of Cyrus', illustrated by Paul Nash (1932)
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A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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Saami man
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Venetian territories and trade routes
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Insects
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 391(2), fol. 3r
Saami bridegroom
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The Tradescant family tomb
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Tombstone (Uzbekistan)
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3. Gunpowder
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Lithograph of Stockholm
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Islam in the 9th Century
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BSH9: Silver stater of King Onasi-, Paphos (Cyprus), probably c. 450-420 BC.
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A nurse's photo album