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Cabinet - Sources

Introduction
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II.2 'Universitas': the original meaning of the term
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Russian man and woman
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Accessing unchained books
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Bodleian, MS Digby 81, fol. 128v
Monographing plants
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II.6 Academic hierarchies
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Oriel
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Botanical gardens outside Italy
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Ribeiro planisphere of 1529
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William Burge and the abolition debate
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Introduction
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A Poetic Anthology from the Veneto (MS Can. Ital. 81)
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Wenzel Jamnitzer (c.1508-1585), Daphne
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Forte Michelangelo, Civitavecchia, Roma (1508-1535)
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Clone of Anatomy theatre, Padua, 1594
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William Lisle Bowles, Fourteen sonnets (Bath, 1789)
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Statue of Buddha
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Gül-yaka (Turkmenistan)
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Transcription: "A Year and a Day."
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The 15th-century printing types
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Islam in the 9th Century
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The terrestrial sphere: the four terrestrial elements
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