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Cabinet - Sources

The first map of 'America': the Waldseemüller map, 1507
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Buff Ware Rhyton from Deve Hüyük
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, ca 1620
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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Prague, 1584: Celestial globe clock
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Movable type
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking south-east across the Court
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Menus - Queenette Club
Anatomical models
Clone of New plants from the New World
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 42r
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A Commedia with a Lyric Collection (MS Can. Ital. 111)
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VI.2 The overall pattern: matriculations and foundations
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Thomas Browne, 'Religio Medici' (1644)
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I.3. University matriculations in Germany and England, 1400-1810
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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Robert Hooke
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A Florentine Poetic Anthology (MS Can. Ital. 99)
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Melozzo da Forlì, Sixtus IV Appointing Platina as Prefect of the Vatican Library (1477)
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Cantino world map, 1502
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BSH17: Silver jug handles, from the Black Sea hoard
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Explore the Display Case
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Automata
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Depictions of the Council of Trent
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