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Cabinet - Sources

BSH1: Silver didrachm of Segesta (Sicily), c. 475–450 BC.
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Monographing plants
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Vannuccio Biringuccio, Pirotechnia (1540)
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Relics
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Spain and Portugal Demarcation Lines
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Redesigning the college library: Merton, 1589-90
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Proof, plate editing and print
Image for Proof, published plate and reverse of the copper printing plate of ‘GRAMINA LOLIACEA, DACTYLA, PHALARIS, PANICUM, ijsq[ue] congenera’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 8, Tab. 3). Plants drawn and copper plate engraved
Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university. Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641–1719)
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The Life of Sir Thomas Browne
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Imperial free cities, 1648
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The four treasures of the study: ink, inkstone, brush, and paper
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Fanny's Scales
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Spots on the sun, 1612-13
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Transcription: "The Star's Letter Box."
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 391(5), fol. 9r
Man in the Moon
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V. Schools Quadrangle
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Newton's prism experiment
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President Nixon
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Bodleian, MS e. Mus. 19, fol. 165v
Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, ca 1620
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Lithograph of Saami sleds
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Нагрудный туристический значок «Биби-Ханым»
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Convocation House, 1634-7
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