Cabinet - Sources

Commemorative postage stamps with architecture of Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
Image for Commemorative postage stamps with architecture of Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
Image for Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
Speculum academicum (1638): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
Image for bdu0010
Andrea Pozzo, Ceiling of Sant'Ignazio Church, Rome (1685)
Image for Andrea Pozzo, Ceiling of Sant' Ignazio, Rome
John Parkinson's 'Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris' (1629)
Image for Title page of John Parkinson (1629) Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, or, A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp: with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, & fruites, for meate or s
Jacopo Antonio Marcello Presents the Manuscript of Strabo to Rene d'Anjou (1459)
Image for Jacopo Antonio Marcello presents the manuscript to Rene d'Anjou
The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
Image for The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528)
Image for Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528)
Russian mother with children
Image for Russian mother with children 1
Saami settlement on Lake Hammasjarvi
Image for Saami settlement on Lake Hammasjarvi
Transcription: "Mother's Holiday."
Image for MothersHoliday1
Funerary monument for John Case
Image for Funerary monument for John Case
From the Bobarts' Herbaria to Morison's Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis (1699)
Saami boys
Image for Saami boys
Another parallatic or ruler-instrument which shows the altitudes as well as the azimuths
Image for bfa0027
‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
Image for ‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
Redesigning the college library: Merton, 1589-90
Image for Redesigning the college library: Merton, 1589-90
Danger
Image for Danger
Balagan (Central Asia)
Image for Balagan (Central Asia)
Nabonidus Chronicle (BM)
Image for Nabonidus Chronicle (BM)
Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole reproduced in E. B. Tylor’s article, ‘Note on the Haida Totem-Post...’
Image for Tylor, E. B. - 'Note on the Haida Totem-post...' pp. 1 (facing)
Looking presidential
Image for Plate, Richard M. Nixon (Republican)
Hooke's microscope
Image for Hooke's microscope
Letter from Laurence Dunne