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Cabinet - Sources

VI.1 The Reformation and the universities: continuity or change?
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Embriachi Casket (3D)
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Silver "Achaemenid Bowl" (BM)
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Rene Descartes
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Museum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum, 1618: a visual commentary on the Emerald Tablet
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Hooke's Micrographia, 1665
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Proscholium and its facade, 1610-12
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Bladder fish
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David Teniers the Younger, The Alchemist (1643/45)
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Russian peasant
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1979 offer letter
Oxford's most famous sundial
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Rhodes Building at Oriel College, High Street
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Saami couple
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The First Printed Edition of the Vita Nuova, 1576
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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John Parkinson's 'Theatrum botanicum' (1640)
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Tabula Rogeriana
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The Apadana at Persepolis
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Itinerary
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Introduction
Week 7: Sites and Sources
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Anatomy theatre as museum
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The 1514 Appendix Aldina
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