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Fanny's Scales
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Petrarch’s Canzoniere and Triumphs with one sonnet attributed to Dante (MS Can. Ital. 70)
John Wilkins
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A Miscellany Written in Prison (MS Can. Ital. 50)
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Clone of New plants, new medicines
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Nevada-Semipalatinsk pennant (Kazakhstan)
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Polish basket sellers
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Picture postcards
Clone of Medieval gardens
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Jan Mostaert, Landscape with an Episode from the Conquest of America (c. 1535)
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Geographies of collecting
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Saami man
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The First Printed Edition of the Vita Nuova, 1576
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John Tradescant Jr in his Garden
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Oxford's most famous sundial
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Types
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Clypeus ploti Fossil
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Introduction
Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 3
Image for First page of Robert Morison (1699) Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis pars tertia seu Herbarum distributio nova,: per tabulas cognationis & affinitatis ex libro naturae observata & detecta. Oxonii, E theatro Sheldoniano.
The transmission of knowledge: From manuscript to print
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 2
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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Elephant's tooth
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