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Cabinet - Sources

Robert Boyle, Sceptical Chymist, 1661
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 12, 1915
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V.4 Rhetoric: the art of persuasion
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Oxford's most famous sundial
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T21: Silver siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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Anaphoric water clock, ca 50 BCE
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Archibald Pitcairne's (1652-1713) plate
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Val and Ken Wyatt
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Drawing of a Saami settlement on Lake Hammasjarvi
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Petrarch’s Canzoniere and Triumphs with one sonnet attributed to Dante (MS Can. Ital. 70)
Jan Treck, Still Life with a Pewter Jug and Two Porcelain Plates (1649)
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Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Albrecht Dürer, The Large Piece of Turf, 1503
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Star Fort of Bourtange, Netherlands (1593)
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Quentin Metsys, Erasmus Medal (1519)
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Pay book
The key to miniaturisation: the Fusee, early 15th century
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Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 939 (section 5, verso)
From decoration to illustration
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Totem poles
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Rhodes Building at Oriel College, High Street
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Family of Sigismund I Jagiellon, c. 1565
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Wenzel Jamnitzer (c.1508-1585), Daphne
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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