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Cabinet - Sources

Russian woman
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Prince Rupert's (1619-1682) plate
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Cylinder seal with royal hero and Bes figure
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A Scientific Revolution
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4. Printing
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Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)
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Hooke's microscope, 1665
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Quadrans Magnus Chalibeus Quadrato Inclusus
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II.1 Where, and what, is the university?
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Fanny's Scales
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The transmission of knowledge: From manuscript to print
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The Four Voyages of Columbus (1492-1504)
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Luis de Camoens, The Lusiad (London, 1655)
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Introduction: architecture becomes a liberal art
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Drawing of a lake
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Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione (c.1514-1515)
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Tycho Brahe's autograph verses of presentation to the Doge of Venice
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 19, 1915
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From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Ruin
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Gunpowder in the Nova reperta
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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Oxford's most famous sundial
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