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Cabinet - Sources

The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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Hooke's microscope, 1665
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Depictions of the Council of Trent
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Saami bride
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Bird feather fan
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Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (stereograph)
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Lateral Wall Sulci Model
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Architecture: The Five Orders
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Adaptation: Early papermaking in Italy, 1264
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Studiolo of Francesco I de' Medici: Introduction
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South Porch, University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, 1637
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Mould
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Oxford's defences, 1648
Guercino, Allegory of Painting (c. 1618)
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Andrea Palladio, Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice (1566-1610)
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Examination Papers (1975-6)
Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, April 28, 1915
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Seth Ward
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Marsilio Ficino, De amore
De Sphera
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Drawing of a camp-fire
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Automaton monk, probably Spanish, ca 1550
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