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Cabinet - Sources

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Transitions to print: Virgil, Eclogues (Aldus Manutius, 1501)
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10. The Watermill
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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The Drake Chair - Divinity Schools, Bodleian Library
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Sundials in the Renaissance
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (print)
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Johannes Hevelius, Machina coelestis, 1673: Frontispiece
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Piazza del Popolo (c. 1662-1681)
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Armillae AEquatoriae maximae
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Polish man
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The Astrolabe
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Humanist botany: the case of Dioscorides
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Invitation to Freshmen's Dinner
Islam in the 9th Century
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Drawing of flax being prepared
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Small quadrant of gilt brass
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Certificates of appreciation (Kazakhstan)
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New plants from the New World
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Fust and Schoeffer in Mainz, 1457-1466
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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Examination Papers (1978)
Tradition
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