Cabinet - Sources

Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus
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Thomas Browne, 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' (1672)
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Notes on ‘totemism’ by Edward Burnett Tylor
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Clone of New plants from the New World
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The Drake Chair - Divinity Schools, Bodleian Library
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Saxon woman
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Depiction of Mecca by Louis-Nicolas de Lespinasse, 1787
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Origins of coins in the Black Sea Hoard
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Galileo's first telescopes, 1609-10
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Quadrans Maximus
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French invasion of Italy, 1494
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Robert Morison (1620-83)
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Drawing of a mountain
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Relics
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, ca 1620
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The key to miniaturisation: the Fusee, early 15th century
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Drawing of a Saami settlement on Lake Hammasjarvi
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Finnish family
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Different "Dantes" for the 20th Century
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Colleges
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Mantegna, Saint Sebastian (1456–1457)
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III.2 Grammar as key to the tower of learning
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Mosaic philosophy
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Seal of Darius I (BM)
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