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Cabinet - Sources

Orbis sensualium pictus, 1658
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 19, 1915
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Bobart the Younger’s Hortus Siccus
Image for Herbarium specimen labelled ‘Malva hortensis major simplex. Single Hollyhocks’ [Jacob Bobart the Younger’s hand] [modern name: Alcea rosea L. (Malvaceae)] from Bobart the Younger’s Hortus Siccus.
An Orthopaedic Stretcher, ca 1548-85
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Studiolo of Francesco I: A Renaissance Worldview
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Octagonal pyramid seal with royal hero
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Saami woman and daughter
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The Drake Chair
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Qingbai Bowl, Southern Song dynasty, porcelain (12th Century)
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The parallatic or ruler-instrument
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Clone of Oxford Physick Garden (1621)
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Astrological tool
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A New Profession
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Printed model to printed image: Blechnum
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Visualizing 'The Movement of the Heart and the Blood in Living Creatures' (1628)
Harvey de motu cordis
Queenie
Terracotta 'Persian rider' from Al Mina (3D)
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VI.4 The founding event: a university disputation
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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
Works of art in family homes in Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
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Central Oxford in 1578
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Fanny the Writer: "Mother Amazed Us All."
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'Like a bundle of thin laths'