Cabinet - Sources

Medieval Arabic cartography, 1154 CE: sophisticated representation of an expanding world
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Cartographic table, Nuremberg, c. 1553
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An Ethiopian mahdar
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Author's inscription
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, ca 1620
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Indian Institute
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Raphael, School of Athens (1509-1510)
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Casino di San Marco: 'The House of Nature'
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‘Bosniac Girl of the Possávina’
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society, 1667
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Statue of Buddha
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Astronomical tower clocks, ca 1380-1588
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II.1 Where, and what, is the university?
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking north-east across the Court
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A deed box for an unpaid debt to the Bodleian Library
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A New Profession
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Quadratura circuli (1643): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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Jan van Kessel, the Elder, c. 1650-3.
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Automaton monk, probably Spanish, ca 1550
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Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Basel, 1542)
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Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon (England, late 14th century)
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Giambologna, The Rape of the Sabine Woman (1582)
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