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Cabinet - Sources

August of Saxony by Lucas Cranach jr., 1572
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French invasion of Italy, 1494
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'Tradescant's Orchard' Herbal
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New plants from the New World
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Studiolo of Francesco I: The Fire Wall
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna and Child (1488)
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Francis Bacon at 17 years of age, 1578
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Jan Mostaert, Landscape with an Episode from the Conquest of America (c. 1535)
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Forte Michelangelo, Civitavecchia, Roma (1508-1535)
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The British War Medal
Tower of the Five Orders, 1613-24
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18. The astrolabe
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Vannuccio Biringuccio, Pirotechnia (1540)
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Convocation House, 1634-7
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Wadham College, 1610-13
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The New St Peter's Basilica
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Comenius
Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, April 14, 1915
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Statue of Queen Philippa (3D)
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'The Flight of the Vestal Virgins,' Biagio di Antonio Tucci
Three-pillared compound microscope, 1760s
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The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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Sheldonian Ceiling
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Suzan Bushnaq’s Artwork (Uzbekistan)
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