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Cabinet - Sources

Ancient Egyptian scarab beetles (c. 3100–525 BC)
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Tabule astronomice Alfonsi Regis (Venice, 1492)
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Official letters
The surrender of Oxford, May-June 1646
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna and Child (1488)
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William Holman Hunt, Study of four Eastern figures (c. 1870)
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Clone of Embriachi Casket @ test(3D)
The Bibliophile Jean Grolier (1479-1565)
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Santucci's sphere, Florence, 1588-93
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Medal of “Motherhood” (Central Asia)
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Anatomy: Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Alchemy, the Four Elements, and the Tria Prima
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Queen Elizabeth I Bible (3D)
The origin and spread of botanical gardens in European universities
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Drawing of Mount Bjelašnica
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T11: Silver stater struck at Tarsos, c. 410-385 BC.
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Finding the qibla
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Sundials in Oxford today
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Armillae AEquatoriae
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Drawing of a camp-fire
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Ecclesiastical territories: the bishop of Würzburg as a reforming prince, 1573-1617
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (print)
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Andrea Palladio, Villa La Rotonda, Vicenza (1567-1585)
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Introduction: New inventions, c. 1600
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