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Cabinet - Sources

Drawing to printed image: Blephilia
Image for Pen-and-ink drawing (with grey wash, over pencil) labelled in the hand of Jacob Bobart the Younger
Watercolour painting by Alfred Robinson of Star House Pole
Image for PRM 2004.144.1
Classical architecture arrives in Oxford, 1599
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Origins of coins in the Black Sea Hoard
Image for New Black Sea Map
The first map of 'America': the Waldseemüller map, 1507
Image for Waldseemüller’s map, 1507
Mould
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg, ca 1585
Image for Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
The Drake Chair - Divinity Schools, Bodleian Library
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Кукла (Казахстан)
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Balagan (Central Asia)
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Model of the ‘Santa María’, wood and cloth
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Eurasia and Africa c. 1025 AD
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Museum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum, 1618: a visual commentary on the Emerald Tablet
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Turkmen earrings gulak-halka (Turkmenistan)
Image for Turkmen earrings gulak-halka (Turkmenistan)
Philip II's El Escorial (1564-1584)
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Rudolf II by Hans von Aachen, 1606/8
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Women's First (and only) Eight, 1982
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A map of the spread of printing in Europe
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Soviet Hovli: The standardized single-family house (Uzbekistan)
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Russian peasant
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Week 3: Sites and Sources
Image for Wk 3 Map
Marshall Refracting Microscope, c. 1715
Image for Marshall Refracting Microscope, c. 1715
Naqsh-e Rustam: Achaemenid Tombs and Sasanian Reliefs.
Image for Panorama
Bodleian, MS Canon. Misc. 248, fol. 42r