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Cabinet - Sources

Photo Album 1979 – 1982
Philip Stephens and William Browne's 'Catalogus Horti Botanici Oxoniensis' (1658)
Image for Title page of Phillip Stephens and William Browne (1658) Catalogus Horti Botanici Oxoniensis. Oxonii, Typis Gulielmi Hall.
Mosaic (Kazakhstan)
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The Cotton Symbol (Uzbekistan)
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The 1514 Appendix Aldina
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Town and gown: Authentica habita and the Privilegium scholasticum
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Cotton Combines (Tajikistan)
Image for Fig.1 Rusting Soviet-era Cotton Combine Harvesters near Yovon, Tajikistan
Robert Hooke
Image for Clone of Hooke Memorial Plaque, Westminster Abbey
Columbian exchanges
Image for Map of goods and disease moved in the Columbian Exchange
Drawing of flax being prepared
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Drawing of a graveyard
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Heating Source: Hearth
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Index of Prohibited Books
Image for Index Librorum Prohibitorum, Venice, 1564
Mercator, World Map (1569)
Image for Clone of Mercator, World Map (1569)
Lycia: Sites and Sources
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Rosso Fiorentino, Elephant Fresco (c. 1536)
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 28 August 1902
Image for Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 28 August 1902
Lantern clock with pyramid stand (c. 1700)
Image for Lantern clock with pyramid stand (c. 1700)
Timeline of voyages
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Gallery of Maps, Vatican Palace, 1580-83
Image for Gallery of Maps, Vatican Palace, 1580-83
Portable Sundials
Image for Diptych dial MHS 41986 1
Stamp Seal Pendant from the Lydian Treasure
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'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' manuscript (17th century)
Image for Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, manuscript on paper, 17th century
Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (stereograph)
Image for Left Frame (1998.267.264.7a) - Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford