Cabinet - Sources

Town and gown: Authentica habita and the Privilegium scholasticum
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Nabonidus Chronicle (BM)
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Epitaph of Apis bull
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The Holy Roman Empire
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Prague, 1584: Celestial globe clock
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Tomb of Sharshembii Uulu Abdykadyr (Kyrgyzstan)
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Opera didactica omnia, 1657
Anatomy theatres
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Musaeum Tradescantianum, 1656
Unique prints
Image for Proofs (left and centre) and published plate of ‘GRAMEN PANICEUM, ALOPECUROS, GRAMEN ALOPECUROIDES. TYPHOIDES, ET SPARTEUM.’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 8, Tab. 4).
Automata
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Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, Augsburg, ca 1625
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Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione (c.1514-1515)
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Calligraphy
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Islam in the 9th Century
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Displaying ‘kindreds and affinities’
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Synopsis of the statutes of the University of Oxford in broadsheet form (1635)
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Virgil, Eclogues (Aldus Manutius, 1501)
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Cotton scale (Tajikistan)
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The maps of Mao Yuanyi (c. 1621)
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15. Eyeglasses
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The Medieval Worldview
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Key innovation: the escapement
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Richard of Wallingford's Astronomical Clock
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