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Cabinet - Sources

Russian fruit seller
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Week 7: Sites and Sources
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14. Oil paint
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Star Fort of Bourtange, Netherlands (1593)
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The microcosm: The four humours of Galenic medicine
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The key to miniaturisation: the Fusee, early 15th century
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Laocoon and his Sons
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T4: Silver tetradrachm struck in western Asia Minor (?), c. 341-334 BC.
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Description of the various parts of the large main building
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T5: Gold stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Oxford's most famous sundial
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Visualizing 'The Movement of the Heart and the Blood in Living Creatures' (1628)
Harvey de motu cordis
Sundials in antiquity
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Translation of the Qu'ran by Sayyid Mahmud Tarazi (Uzbekistan/India)
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Russian basket seller
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Надпись «Ленинград-Ташкенту» (Узбекистан)
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Seal of Darius I (BM)
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Beetles
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The first superintendent: Jacob Bobart the Elder (c. 1599-1680)
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Studiolo of Isabella d'Este
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Roadshow overview
Francois Dubois, St Bartolomew's Day Massacre
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Anatomy: Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Oxford's Physick Garden, 1621
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