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Cabinet - Sources

Title page to part one: Organographia
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Building the Bodleian
Russian woman
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Casting from life, c. 1560-70
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Anatomy theatre as museum
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, fol. 259v
Justus Lipsius (1547-1606)
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Frans Post, A Sugar Mill Driven by a Small River (c.1650-1655)
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A deed box for an unpaid debt to the Bodleian Library
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court (stereograph)
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Clone of New plants from the New World
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Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society, 1667
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Elephant's tooth
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'Palissy Ware' Dish
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Selden End, 1634-7
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Kurt (Kurut)
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Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641-1719)
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Transcription: "Women and Land."
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Narrating Dante's Life and Love Through His Lyric Poetry
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Queenie Vol. VIII, No. 3
Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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Columbian exchanges
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Explore the Display Case
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JH9: Silver ingot cut from a rod or bracelet.
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