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Cabinet - Sources

Francis Bacon, c. 1618
Astronomical tower clocks
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Ribeiro planisphere of 1529
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Abyssinian roll of parchment
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Models of Saami women
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Drawing of a lake
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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The First 20 Years, 1450-1470: Earliest specimens in print
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Astronomical tower clocks, ca 1380-1588
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Çan Sarcophagus, 1st quarter of 4th century BC.
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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Verses to Tycho Brahe by Oliger Rosenkrantz
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Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
Image for The Galenic Humours, by Lois Hague, 1991
Bodleian, MS Digby 81, fol. 128v
Inflow water clock
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Clypeus ploti Fossil
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Henry Compton's (1631/2-1713) plate
Image for Plate of ‘PLANTÆ GALEATÆ VERTICILLATÆ Spicatæ. Betonica, Prunella, Bugula, Coris’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 11, Tab. 5) sponsored by Henry Compton (1631/2-1713).
Russian mother with children
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking north-east across the Court
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Summary chronology of early printing
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Clone of The Rise of Renaissance Botany
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Funerary monument for John Case
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 399, folios 18r-22r
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Clone of Oxford Physick Garden (1621)
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