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Cabinet - Sources

11. The Windmill
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Alexander VII, by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (after 1650)
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Ottoman Turkish map: fragment of the world map of Piri Reis, 1513
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1914 and 1914-1915 Star
The first superintendent: Jacob Bobart the Elder (c. 1599-1680)
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university
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II.5 'Authentica habita': Academic garments to distinguish town from gown
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‘Christian Gravestone’
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Thomas Browne, 'Religio Medici' (1642)
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Colophon, fol. 45v
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Description of the various parts of the large main building
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 200)
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T32: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the satrap Mazakes, (?) 331-323 BC (or earlier).
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Anatomical models
Pharmacies and Alchemical Laboratories
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone’, manuscript on paper, 1800
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'Median' dagger from Deve Hüyük
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Молокосторож [и Молоко] (Казахстан)
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Philosophical Transactions, no. 178 (1685)
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Wadham College, 1610-13
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Christopher Wren
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Forte Michelangelo, Civitavecchia, Roma (1508-1535)
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Lunar volvelle
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