Cabinet - Sources

‘Monster House’
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VI.8 Institutionalising humanist philology
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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Drawing of mountains
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Grandmother's spindle (Kyrgyzstan)
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Prince Rupert's (1619-1682) plate
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Drawing of mountains
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Automaton monk, probably Spanish, ca 1550
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Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society, 1667
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Anatomical models
Seal of Darius I (BM)
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Hussite Wagon-Fort
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John Gerard, The herball or Generall historie of plantes (London, 1597)
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Henry Compton's (1631/2-1713) plate
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking north-east across the Court
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Terrestrial longitude
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Johanninpoika Marataja
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 41v
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Missions to Japan
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Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
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The Slave Trade
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Medium sized azimuth quadrant of brass
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