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Cabinet - Sources

Morisonian Herbarium
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South Porch, University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, 1637
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The origin and spread of botanical gardens in European universities
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Newton's Alchemical Sublimations
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Perspective Applied: Masaccio, Trinità (c.1426-1428)
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'Like a bundle of thin laths'
Russian sleigh
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Дом-музей М.В. Фрунзе, Бишкек (Кыргызстан)
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Tycho Brahe's autograph verses of presentation to the Doge of Venice
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An Anthology of Dante’s ‘Minor’ Works (MS Can. Ital. 114)
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The Alexander Mosaic.
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Drawing of a quern
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Church at Tornio
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Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Ulm, 1482)
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Calligraphy
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Christopher Wren
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T5: Gold stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Funerary monument for John Case
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Marsilio Ficino, De amore
Revolving azimuth quadrant
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Aliud instrumentum simile priori
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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