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Cabinet - Sources

Bembo Family's Sallust
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Watercolour painting by Alfred Robinson of Star House Pole
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Helioscope
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Theodor de Bry, Mining in Potosí (1596)
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The Decrees of the Council of Trent
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The Indian Institute
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Pietro da Cortona, Dying St Alessio (c. 1638)
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T8: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Mithrapata of Antiphellos, c. 390-360 BC.
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Synopsis of the statutes of the University of Oxford in broadsheet form (1635)
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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Duke Humfrey's Library before Bodley
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court (stereograph)
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Sextans Chalibeus
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Order in Council (1978)
Drawing of pottery vessels and other items
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university
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Collegio Ghislieri, University of Pavia
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Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Clone of Bezoar
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Raphael, The Marriage of the Virgin (1504)
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Cataloguing the Physick Garden (1648 and 1658)
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Interior of St Anne's Lutheran Church, Augsburg
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Explore the Display Case
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