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Cabinet - Sources

Relics
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Melozzo da Forlì, Sixtus IV Appointing Platina as Prefect of the Vatican Library (1477)
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Houses and totem poles in Masset
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Instrumenti eiusdem ut Altitudinibus Capiendis
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The Danby Gate (Oxford, 1632-3): a portal between two worlds
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Book Forms: Bound Volumes
Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 40v
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 21 1915
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T5: Gold stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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T18: Silver siglos, “King half-length” Carradice Type 1.
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Michael Maier (1568–1622)
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Epilogue: 1470 and after
Rembrandt, Self portrait
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William Wordsworth, A Guide through the District of the Lakes in the North of England (Kendal, 1835)
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Grandmother's spindle (Kyrgyzstan)
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Plan of Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
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John Donne's 1531 Convivio
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Introduction
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Val and Ken Wyatt
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JH10-JH17: Earrings from the Jordan hoard
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Oxford's most famous sundial
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Invitation
Ecclesiastical territories: the palace of the prince-bishop of Würzburg
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