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Cabinet - Sources

The 1491 First Edition of Dante's Lyric Poetry
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Oxford's defences, 1644: a garbled map
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Texture of plants
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Sextans Chalibeus
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Drawing of trees
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Prague Astronomical Clock (1410 onwards)
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William Wordsworth, A Guide through the District of the Lakes in the North of England (Kendal, 1835)
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg, ca 1585
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Paper flowers
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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Orozbakov’s Manas (Kyrgyzstan)
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Carried into exile
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Beetles
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Terracotta 'Persian rider' from Al Mina (3D)
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Towers of the Orders before Merton
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Embriachi Casket (3D)
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Hooke's Micrographia, 1665
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Queenette’s Dining Club
JH2: Silver tetradrachm of Akanthos (Chalcidice), fragment, c. 470 BC.
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The Oxford Philosophical Society
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Bramante, Tempietto (c. 1502)
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The right man for the job
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John Parkinson's 'Theatrum botanicum' (1640)
Image for Title page of John Parkinson (1640) Theatrum botanicum: the theater of plants. or, An herball of a large extent. London, Printed by Tho. Cotes.