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Cabinet - Sources

Clone of The Rise of Renaissance Botany
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The mariner's astrolabe and Portuguese exploration
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New plants from the New World
Image for Typical folio of specimens from Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus, mostly labelled in the hand of Jacob Bobart the Younger.
14. Oil paint
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Drawing of a mountain
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6. Guaiacum and syphilis
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Jan van Kessel, the Elder, c. 1650-3.
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Invitation
1979 offer letter
Enquiry about a missing soldier
Matzah (Kazakhstan)
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Oxford as a Window on Seventeenth-Century Science
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Memorial to Sir William Jones - University College Chapel
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The Woman Who Did
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Lithograph of Saami people
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The World in 1700
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Islam in the 9th Century
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Botanical Gardens
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Lunar cycle
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Happy Birthday
Jacopo Pontormo, The Deposition from the Cross (1525-1528)
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Bodleian, MS e. Mus. 19, fol. 165v
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
Design of the main buildings of Uraniborg
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