Cabinet - Sources

Xerxes and the Persians in "300".
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Joris Hoefnagel, Insects, c. 1590-1600
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‘Monster House’
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‘Peoples of the USSR’ – Postage Stamp Collection (Central Asia)
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Dante Scholars in Oxford
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 28 August 1902
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Fanny's Scales
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Ribeiro planisphere of 1529
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Fanny's Chickens
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Humanist botany: the case of Dioscorides
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'Like a bundle of thin laths'
Giambologna, The Rape of the Sabine Woman (1582)
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 42r
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Fust and Schoeffer in Mainz, 1457-1466
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Terracotta 'Persian rider' from Selemieh
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Reformers
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Vase made of artillery shell
Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university
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From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Medieval Arabic cartography, 1154 CE: sophisticated representation of an expanding world
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Anatomy: Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Town and gown: Authentica habita and the Privilegium scholasticum
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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I. America
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