Cabinet - Sources

Merton College, 1608-10
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Descartes's correspondence
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Book Forms: Overview
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Fanny's Scales
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Philosophers guiding research
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Frans (II) Francken, c. 1620-25
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The Bibliophile Jean Grolier (1479-1565)
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Map of the New World, 1544
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Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’, east end of the Court
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 43v
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The Savilian Professors' Houses, 1672-1854, and Halley's Observatory
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Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Ulm, 1482)
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Introduction: architecture becomes a liberal art
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August of Saxony by Lucas Cranach jr., 1572
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John Gerard's 'The herball' (1633)
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Конфеты Кара-Кум (Центральная Азия)
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Тюбетейка (Узбекистан)
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Spots on the sun, 1612-13
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Innovation and Printing
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Venice from Nuremberg Chronicle
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The Cost of Books and the Cost of Living
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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A box to 'kindle therein any fire or flame'?
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Cotton scale (Tajikistan)
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