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Cabinet - Sources

A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica cover (in depth)
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Clone of The Rise of Renaissance Botany
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Celestial globe clock, Augsburg, 1584
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Map of religious divisions in the Swiss Confederation (1536)
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Bodleian, MS Canon. Misc. 248, fol. 42r
Types
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," March 31 1915
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Rudolf II by Hans von Aachen, 1606/8
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The 15th-century printing types
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Week 6: Sites and Sources
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August of Saxony by Lucas Cranach jr., 1572
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The world's earliest dated printed book (868)
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 14 1915
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The mariner's astrolabe and Portuguese exploration
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Transcription: "A Year and a Day."
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III.3 The Seven Liberal Arts
The Five Orders of Architecture: Sebastiano Serlio (1537/1611)
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Hussite Wagon-Fort
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Clock with Automated Procession of Bacchus, ca 1580
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Sundials in Oxford today
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Pietro Perugino, The Delivery of Keys to St Peter (1481-1482)
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Clypeus ploti Fossil
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