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Cabinet - Sources

Oldenburg's correspondence
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The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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Albrecht Dürer, Self-portrait in fur coat, 1500
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The Medieval Worldview
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The Cotton Symbol (Uzbekistan)
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Field postcard
Redesigning the college library: Merton, 1589-90
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Canadian Skin Shirt
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Drawing of a Saami teacher
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Clone of The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Marshall Refracting Microscope, c. 1715
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Albrecht Dürer, The Large Piece of Turf, 1503
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Robert Fludd's Alchemical Philosophy and Medicine
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Kepler's Mysterium cosmographicum, 1596
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A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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A map of the spread of printing in Europe: where the books are today
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Water clocks
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 41v
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Oxford's Physick Garden, 1621
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Transcription: "Women and Land."
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Drawing to printed image: Blephilia
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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 3
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 140)
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Scales Narrative
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