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Cabinet - Sources

The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Sundials in the Renaissance
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The four terrestrial elements
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Pickled Cucumbers (Kyrgyzstan)
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Churches at Sodankylä
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Colophon, fol. 45v
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Lithograph of antlers and weapons
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'The Flight of the Vestal Virgins,' Biagio di Antonio Tucci
Boucher, The Invention of Drawing (18th century)
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Secrets of the calendar
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Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, c. 1490
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Dala Shiypon in Jarqurgon District (Surkhandaryo Viloyat, Uzbekistan)
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Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
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August of Saxony by Lucas Cranach jr., 1572
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Indian Institute, Broad Street
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Central Oxford in 1578
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The Medieval Worldview
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Week 3: Sites and Sources
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Jan Mostaert, Landscape with an Episode from the Conquest of America (c. 1535)
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Queen Elizabeth I Feeding the Dutch Cow
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 13002, folios 2v-3r
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Bread roll
Lodestone and iron nails
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Tables (Tajikistan)
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