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Cabinet - Sources

Building the Bodleian
T8: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Mithrapata of Antiphellos, c. 390-360 BC.
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Architectural drawing as craft skill
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Iconoclasm in the Low Countries
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 5, 1915
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Letters from Samuel Bodger
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The phases of Venus, 1610-23
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The Waldseemüller map, 1507
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Explore the Display Case
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Thomas Hobbes
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Anatomical engravings
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The microcosm: The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (print)
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V.4 Rhetoric: the art of persuasion
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Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica cover (in depth)
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Bishops
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Cartography: the Waldseemüller map, 1507
Guercino, Allegory of Painting (c. 1618)
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Drawing of trees
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John Danvers' plate
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William Wordsworth, A Guide through the District of the Lakes in the North of England (Kendal, 1835)
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Giambologna, The Rape of the Sabine Woman (1582)
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Brain and ocular system
Туркменские серьги гулак-халка: память о войне и устойчивые традиции (Туркменистан)
Image for Turkmen earrings gulak-halka (Turkmenistan)