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Cabinet - Sources

'Catalogus Herbarum ex horto Botanico Oxoniensi' (1676)
Image for Page from Bobart the Younger’s manuscript Catalogus Herbarum ex horto Botanico Oxoniensi and Altera pars Catologi ex Horto Botan: Oxon, dated 1676.
Anatomical models
Drawing of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Uppsala
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John Gerard's 'The herball' (1633)
Image for Title page of John Gerard (1633) The herball, or, Generall historie of plantes. London, Printed by Adam Islip Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers.
Chancellor's Court, 1634-7
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, Augsburg, ca 1625
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Looking presidential
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 3
Image for First page of Robert Morison (1699) Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis pars tertia seu Herbarum distributio nova,: per tabulas cognationis & affinitatis ex libro naturae observata & detecta. Oxonii, E theatro Sheldoniano.
Drawing of Bosnian people
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Plant to drawing: Geranium and Sideritis
Image for Dried plant specimens and associated drawings of Geranium tuberosum (Geraniaceae) with annotations in the hand of Jacob Bobart the Younger.
Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 444-5)
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The 1514 Appendix Aldina
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Xanthos Trilingual, 337 BC
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Map of the New World, 1544
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The Savilian Professorships, 1619
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The 1532 Venetian Reprint of the Giuntina
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Johann Cogler, Lutheran Sacrament of the Altar (1558)
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Bodleian, MS e. Mus. 19, fol. 165v
Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Clone of A Musket Ball Puller in Dresden
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