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Cabinet - Sources

Cabinet for August of Brunswick-Lüneburg, c. 1630
Image for Augsburg cabinet by Philip Hainhofer for Duke August of Brunswick-Lüneburg, c. 1630
The surrender of Oxford, May-June 1646
Image for Cromwell's House, Marston
The Oxford Philosophical Society
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Nature
Image for Integra naturae speculum artisque imago, 1618
Pioneer scarf (Tajikistan)
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Printing and the economy: the first paper money
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David Loggan (1634–1692)
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Bread roll
Autograph inscription by Sir Henry Wotton to the Bodleian Library, 15 August 1633
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Prague, 1584: Celestial globe clock
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Hemispherical silver bowl with gold appliqués (BM)
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Printed model to printed image: Senecio
Image for Printed illustration struck from a copper plate, engraved by an unknown artist, and published in Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 7, Tab. 12) (left).
Casting from life, c. 1560-70
Image for Jamnitzer, Lizard Balance (c.1560-1570)
Lantern clock with pyramid stand (c. 1700)
Image for Lantern clock with pyramid stand (c. 1700)
The Decrees of the Council of Trent
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II.5 'Authentica habita': Academic garments to distinguish town from gown
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Digitising objects
A box for going to sea?
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The Savilian Professorships, 1619
Image for Funerary Monument for Henry Savile
A Scientific Revolution
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Macrocosm and microcosm
Image for Fludd, Utriusque cosmi historia, 1617
Galileo's most decisive telescopic observation: the phases of Venus, 1610-23
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Sextans Chalibeus
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Works of art in family homes in Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
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