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Cabinet - Sources

Armillary Sphere (from 1613)
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Augsburg cabinet, ca 1650
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Languages
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David Loggan’s ‘Hortus Botanicus' (1675)
Image for Print entitled ‘Hortus Botanicus The Physick Garden in Oxon’ from David Loggan (1675) Oxonia illustrata, sive Omnium celeberrimae istius universitatis collegiorum, aularum, bibliothecae Bodleianae, scholarum publicarum, Theatri Sheldoniani; nec non urbis
Anatomy: a manual art, 1493
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Official letters
T18: Silver siglos, “King half-length” Carradice Type 1.
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Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’, looking east across the Court
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Chancellor's Court, 1634-7
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The Alexander Mosaic.
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 184)
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Vatican Library, Pal.lat. 1369, fol. 148r
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Pierre Gassendi, 'Institutio Astronomica' (1683)
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Jan van der Straet, The Alchemist's Laboratory (1570)
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Introduction
Proof, plate editing and print
Image for Proof, published plate and reverse of the copper printing plate of ‘GRAMINA LOLIACEA, DACTYLA, PHALARIS, PANICUM, ijsq[ue] congenera’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 8, Tab. 3). Plants drawn and copper plate engraved
Cartographic table, Nuremberg, c. 1553
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Seal of Cyrus I
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Lithograph of building at Ornäs
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Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Astronomical sextant for measuring altitudes
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‘Croatian Pottery’
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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