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Cabinet - Sources

The surrender of Oxford, May-June 1646
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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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MS Ashmole 399, folios 14r-15r
Jaca Bastion Fort, Spain
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Queenie Vol. VI, No. 1
T32: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the satrap Mazakes, (?) 331-323 BC (or earlier).
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Title page of Francis Bacon's Instauratio Magna (1620)
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Petrarch’s Canzoniere and Triumphs with one sonnet attributed to Dante (MS Can. Ital. 70)
T16: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the satrap Mazaios, c. 361-333 BC.
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The King and the Bodleian
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Crucifix Dial, Adriaan Zeelst (1588)
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Рисовые поля (Казахстан/Кыргызстан)
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II.6 Academic hierarchies
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Piazza del Popolo (c. 1662-1681)
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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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An anatomical landmark: Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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‘Peoples of the USSR’ – Postage Stamp Collection (Central Asia)
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The Bodleian and the King
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‘Outline of Tracery’
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Certificate of purges (Kyrgyzstan)
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14. Oil paint
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Clock with Automated Procession of Bacchus, ca 1580
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Nova reperta: title page
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