Cabinet - Sources

Naqsh-e Rustam: Achaemenid Tombs and Sasanian Reliefs.
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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I.2. College foundations in Oxford and Cambridge, 1249-1878
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Ptolemy World Map, 1540
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Dedication to Rudolf II
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Different "Dantes" for the 20th Century
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‘Croat Woman in the Agram Market’
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Thomas Browne, 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' (1672)
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Drawing of pottery vessels
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Explore the Display Case
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The Cyrus Cylinder (Again)
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Francois Dubois, St Bartolomew's Day Massacre (24 August 1572)
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II.3 'Universitas magistrorum et scholarium’: a self-governing corporation of teachers and students
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II.4 'Privilegium scholasticum': the jurisdiction of the Chancellor's Court
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Studiolo of Francesco I: A Renaissance Worldview
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The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Marshall Refracting Microscope, c. 1715
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Tomb of Sharshembii Uulu Abdykadyr (Kyrgyzstan)
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Clone of Pietro Perugino, The Delivery of Keys to St Peter (1481-1482)
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 15 February 1902
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John Parkinson's 'Theatrum botanicum' (1640)
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The growth of the empire, c. 559-500 BC
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Dante's Canzoniere in Britain
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Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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