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Cabinet - Sources

T22: Silver 1/6 siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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The Oxford Crown
'Catalogus Herbarum ex horto Botanico Oxoniensi' (1676)
Image for Page from Bobart the Younger’s manuscript Catalogus Herbarum ex horto Botanico Oxoniensi and Altera pars Catologi ex Horto Botan: Oxon, dated 1676.
Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531)
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Laocoon and his Sons
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Introduction and Contents
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2. Magnetic Compass
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Clock with Automated Procession of Bacchus, ca 1580
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Lithograph of Stockholm
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Hugh Robinson's Textbook (1616)
Image for Hugh Robinson, I Preces. II Grammaticalia quaedam. III Rhetorica brevis. (Oxford, 1616)
Drawing of a man
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Advancement of Learning (Oxford, 1640)
Printing in Venice
Image for A map of the location of a number of printing shops operating in Venice, based on archival research
Sir Isaac Newton, by Godfrey Keller (1702)
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Heinrich Khunrath, 'Ora et Labora' (1609)
Image for Vredemann de Vries, Ora et labora, from Heinrich Khunrath, Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae (1609)
Tower of the Five Orders, 1613-24
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The astrolabe
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Plan of Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
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An Orthopaedic Stretcher, ca 1548-85
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Tabule astronomice Alfonsi Regis (Venice, 1492)
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Polish man smoking a pipe
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Mappa Mundi
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Bodleian, MS e. Mus. 19, fol. 165v