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Cabinet - Sources

Bodleian, MS Digby 81, fol. 128v
Houses and totem poles in Masset (glass negative)
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Roberto Valturio, De re militari (1472)
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Bladder fish
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Ukrainian vyshyvanka shirts in Soviet Pamir (Tajikistan)
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Johanes Stradanus, Nova reperta (1600)
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August of Saxony by Lucas Cranach jr., 1572
Image for Elector August of Saxony by Lucas Cranach jr., 1572
Bird Rattle (3D)
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The four humours
Image for Clone of The Galenic Humours, by Lois Hague, 1991
Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘On the Totem-Post from the Haida Village of Masset...’ (1899)
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Haida helmet (3-D)
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Prague Astronomical Clock (1410 onwards)
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Laocoon and his Sons
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Çan Sarcophagus, 1st quarter of 4th century BC.
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Clone of New plants from the New World
Image for Typical folio of specimens from Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus, mostly labelled in the hand of Jacob Bobart the Younger.
Boucher, The Invention of Drawing (18th century)
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Examination Papers (1978)
Finnish boy
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Hugh Robinson's Textbook (1616)
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BSH5: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment, c. 450–425 BC.
Image for BSH5: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment, c. 450–425 BC. Kraay and Moorey 1981, no.16. [Obverse]
Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus
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Guercino, Allegory of Painting (c. 1618)
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Santucci's sphere, Florence, 1588-93
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