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Cabinet - Sources

Robert Boyle's (1627-1691) plate
Image for Plate of ‘Legumina non Scandentia siliquis erectis’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1680: Sect. 2, Tab. 7) sponsored by Robert Boyle (1627-1691).
A Scientific Revolution
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Saxon women
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Divinity School
The Medieval Worldview
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Cantino world map, 1502
Image for Clone of Cantino world map (1502)
Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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T30: Silver shekel, struck at Tyre, c. 425-394 BC.
Image for Clone of T30: Silver shekel, struck at Tyre, c. 425-394 BC. [Obverse]
Monstrances
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Automaton monk, probably Spanish, ca 1550
Image for Automaton monk, ca 1550
JH3: Silver stater of Thasos, fragment.
Image for JH3: Silver stater of Thasos, fragment, DATE. [Obverse]
Catacomb Saints
Image for St Alexander in Waldsassen, Bavaria
Drawing of a Saami teacher
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University Church
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Studiolo of Francesco I: Prometheus and Nature
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Week 3: Sites and Sources
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Anatomy theatre as museum
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Portrait of John Case
Image for Portrait of John Case, St John's College, Oxford
Printed model to printed image: Senecio
Image for Printed illustration struck from a copper plate, engraved by an unknown artist, and published in Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 7, Tab. 12) (left).
Explore the Display Case
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The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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V. Schools Quadrangle
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The First Printed Edition of the Vita Nuova, 1576
Image for 1576 Vita Nuova - Copy: Taylor Institution Library, VET.ITAL.I.A.145 Rare N11217057
Ora et labora
Image for Alchemist's laboratory, Khunrath's Amphitheatrum (detail)