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Cabinet - Sources

Drawing of a lake
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Xylography (woodblock printing)
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Transcription: "So Tired."
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 40v
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Instruments: described in the Saggi
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Lithograph of a Swedish man and woman
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VI.3 The founder: a university professor
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3. Gunpowder
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Missions to Japan
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Rhinoceros horn cup, Prague 1611
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Drawing of mountains
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Mathematical model (from 1620)
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Fanny's Chickens
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Bronze phiale from Deve Hüyük
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Zodiac Man
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university. Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641–1719)
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Medieval European cartography, c. 1280: speculative and symbolic
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War and Peace in Europe, 1598-1650
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Advancement of Learning (Oxford, 1640)
Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione (c.1514-1515)
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Ceramic vessels, terrapin whistle and greenstone amulets, the Bay Islands, Cocal Period (1000–1530 AD)
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Theophrastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus (1493-1541)
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Kurt (Kurut)
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