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Cabinet - Sources

Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (print)
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"One small step..."
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Book Forms: Overview
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Introduction
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Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society, 1667
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Colantonio, St Jerome in his Study (1444)
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Hooke's microscope, 1665
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The astrolabe
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Menu
"Achaemenid Bowl" from Deve Hüyük (B)
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Robert Fludd's Alchemical Philosophy and Medicine
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T13: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the general Tiribazos, c. 384-383 BC.
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Prague, 1584: Celestial globe clock
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university
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T11: Silver stater struck at Tarsos, c. 410-385 BC.
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 5, fol. 34v
Bill of account from the Hudson’s Bay Company to Edward Burnett Tylor, 9 November 1900
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Clone of New plants from the New World
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«Манас» Орозбакова (Кыргызстан)
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13. Sugar
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Building the Bodleian
Lithograph of Saami people
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Apadana tribute reliefs
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1979 offer letter