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Cabinet - Sources

Three-pillared compound microscope, 1760s
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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Baked potato
Autograph inscription by Sir Henry Wotton to the Bodleian Library, 15 August 1633
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The Seven Liberal Arts
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking south-east across the Court
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Queenie Vol. VII, No. 2
Drawing of a saddled reindeer
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Clone of Oxford Physick Garden (1621)
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, March 31, 1915
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Transitions to print: Virgil, Eclogues (Aldus Manutius, 1501)
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Sundials in the Renaissance
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The Right to Homestead
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Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica cover (in depth)
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A mathematical model?
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Inflow water clock
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Charter of Queen Philippa (1347)
Statues of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, Canterbury Quadrangle, St John's College
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 5, 1915
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Cylinder seal with royal hero and Bes figure
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The five orders and the five platonic solids: 'Mathematical Model', 1620
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Oldenburg's correspondence
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Islamic Alchemy: A Primer
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Clone of San Zeno Wheel (Verona, c. 1450)
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