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Cabinet - Sources

A fragmented polity
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Browne's Collection: a 'Cabinet of Rarities'
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T9: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Perikles of Limyra, c. 390-360 BC.
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The four terrestrial elements
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Lithograph of antlers and weapons
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Dutch Delft Militiamen, 1606-1674
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Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
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Introduction
Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 420-21)
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking north-east across the Court
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Andrea Palladio, Villa La Rotonda, Vicenza (1567-1585)
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Rudolf II by Hans von Aachen (1606/1608)
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II.3 'Universitas magistrorum et scholarium’: a self-governing corporation of teachers and students
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Studiolo of Isabella d'Este
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Missions to Africa
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Purpose
Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 1
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Hooke's Micrographia, 1665
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Women's First (and only) Eight, 1982
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My grandmother’s jewellery
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Revolving azimuth quadrant
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John Rose's (1619-1677) plate
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VI.9 Unintended consequences
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Newton's Alchemical Sublimations
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