Cabinet - Sources

The first superintendent: Jacob Bobart the Elder (c. 1599-1680)
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From the Bobarts' Herbaria to Morison's Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis (1699)
Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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‘Head of Brenese Peasant’
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Naqsh-e Rustam: Achaemenid Tombs and Sasanian Reliefs.
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Printing and salvation in Japan: One Million Pagodas, ca. 764–70 CE
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BSH12: Silver bar-ingot (cut down).
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From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Models of Saami women
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Dutch Trade Routes
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The Bodleian and the King
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Ferrante Imperato, 1599
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, fol. 259v
Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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Church at Tornio
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T27: Silver dishekel, struck at Sidon in the name of the satrap Mazaios, 336/5 BC.
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The terrestrial sphere: the four terrestrial elements
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Prague Astronomical Clock (1410 onwards)
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‘Samovar’ earrings
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Cushion starfish
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Мозаика (Казахстан)
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Certificate of purges (Kyrgyzstan)
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Туркменские серьги гулак-халка: память о войне и устойчивые традиции (Туркменистан)
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Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort's (1630-1715) plate
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