Cabinet - Sources

The World in 1700
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Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528)
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Speculum academicum (1638): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 222)
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William Wordsworth, The Prelude (London, 1850)
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Thomas Browne, 'Religio Medici' (1644)
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Stele of Xerxes from the Hierothesion of Antiochus I.
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A Florentine Poetic Anthology (MS Can. Ital. 99)
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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T31: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the Egyptian satrap Sabakes, c.340-333 BC.
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III.5 Common hierarchies
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Book Forms: Folded Books
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Tomb of Cyrus at Pasargadae
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The Cost of Books and the Cost of Living
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"Tutto Dante"
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Proscholium and its facade, 1610-12
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Charter of Queen Philippa (1347)
Saami cradle
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Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Robert Hanley Hall, 11 June 1899
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‘Old Castle of Doboj’
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Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Florentine Codex, Nahuas infected with smallpox (c. 1585)
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