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Cabinet - Sources

The uses of the telescope, 1609-10
Image for Galileo to the Doge of Venice, August 1609
Abyssinian roll of parchment
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Russian peasant
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Silver denarius
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Prisoner of War notification
Ceramic vessels, terrapin whistle and greenstone amulets, the Bay Islands, Cocal Period (1000–1530 AD)
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Sheldonian Ceiling
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Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 939 (section 5, verso)
John Calvin (1509-1564)
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Key innovation: the escapement
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Autograph inscription by Sir Henry Wotton to the Bodleian Library, 15 August 1633
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Plant to drawing: Geranium and Sideritis
Image for Dried plant specimens and associated drawings of Geranium tuberosum (Geraniaceae) with annotations in the hand of Jacob Bobart the Younger.
Transcription: "'Our Weddin': A True Saskatchewan Story of Feb, 1916."
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Travel authorisation by Arshama
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Plate to print: carrot
Image for Detail of carrot from plate of ‘UMBELLÆ semine villoso seu hispido donatae.’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 9, Tab. 13), together with the face of the copper plate from which it was printed.
Anonymous 'Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis' (1648)
Image for Title page of Anonymous (1648) Catologus Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis. Oxonii, Henricus Hall Typographus Academiae.
Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’
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Letter: "Homesteads for Women."
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The Idle Shepherd Boys continued (vol. 2)
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Studiolo of Francesco I: Structure
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New-world diseases and treatments
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A Copy of the Convivio (MS Ital. d 5)
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677)