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Cabinet - Sources

The four humours
Image for Clone of The Galenic Humours, by Lois Hague, 1991
The world's earliest dated printed book (868)
Image for The world's earliest dated printed book (868)
Map of Assyrian Empire (824 BC and 671 BC)
Image for Map of Assyrian Empire (824 BC and 671 BC)
The 1727 Reprint of the Giuntina
Image for 1727 Giuntina - Copy: Toynbee 1374
James Hannington - St. Peter's College
Image for Main window in Hannington Hall, St. Peter's College
Andrea Palladio, Villa Barbaro, Maser - Veneto (1554-1558)
Image for Panorama of Villa Barbaro, Veneto
Calligraphy
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Key innovation: the escapement
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Lives of Ashkenazi Jews (Polish Citizens) in Central Asia
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Urban VIII by Pietro da Cortona (c. 1624-1627)
Image for Urban VIII by Pietro da Cortona (c. 1624-1627)
Russian women
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Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’, east end of the Court
Image for Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
Promotional Immigration Literature and Ephemera
Image for Free Farms for Willing Workers
SS Vicenzo e Atanasio Church, Rome (1644-1650)
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Raphael, The Marriage of the Virgin (1504)
Image for Raphael, The Wedding of the Virgin (1504)
Anatomical models
Modelling the movements of the heavens
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John Rose's (1619-1677) plate
Image for Plate of ‘VARIÆ PLANTÆ ADDENDÆ suis GENERIBUS INTERMEDIIS’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1680: Sect. 5, Tab. 36) sponsored by John Rose (1619-1677).
Wenzel Jamnitzer (c.1508-1585), Daphne
Image for Clone of Jamnitzer, Daphne
Indian Institute, Broad Street
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Astrolabe table clock
Image for Astrolabe table clock
Lithograph of men hunting sea lions
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Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’
Image for Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
China under the Song Dynasty
Image for China under the Song Dynasty (1111)