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Cabinet - Sources

The Life of Sir Thomas Browne
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Wire-drawing bench, Nuremberg, before 1565
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Displaying ‘kindreds and affinities’
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A New Profession
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Bodleian, MS Canon. Misc. 559, fol. 2r
Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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Silver and gold phiale from the Lydian Treasure
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Supplement regarding the subdivision and dioptre of the instruments
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Galileo's most decisive telescopic observation: the phases of Venus, 1610-23
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Medial Wall Gyri Model
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Frans Post, A Sugar Mill Driven by a Small River (c.1650-1655)
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The origin and spread of botanical gardens in European universities
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Clone of Icon of Mahatma Gandhi
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David Loggan (1634–1692)
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The Idle Shepherd Boys (vol. 2)
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Avarice
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Visitors to the Bodleian
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Portable Sundials
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Albrecht Dürer, The Large Piece of Turf, 1503
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Saami woman and daughter
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Fanny's Chickens
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Danby Gate, Botanical Garden, 1632-3
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Telegrams
Reformers
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