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Cabinet - Sources

4. Printing
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BSH10: Silver siglos, probably minted at Sardeis. Mid-late 5th century BC.
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Virgil, Eclogues (Aldus Manutius, 1501)
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Danby Gate, Botanical Garden, 1632-3
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Opera didactica omnia, 1657
JH9: Silver ingot cut from a rod or bracelet.
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Soviet Hovli: The standardized single-family house (Uzbekistan)
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking north-east across the Court
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Saami buildings on Lake Suolajarvi
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Saami settlement on Lake Hammasjarvi
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 164)
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Crown “Tilla Kash” (Kyrgyzstan)
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Oxford as a Window on Seventeenth-Century Science
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Pickled Cucumbers (Kyrgyzstan)
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Another parallatic or ruler-instrument which shows the altitudes as well as the azimuths
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Accessing unchained books
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Netsuke representing Tanuki, the raccoon dog (3-D)
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V.2 The 'studia humanitatis': what was at stake?
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Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
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Alexander VII, by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (after 1650)
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T1: Silver tetradrachm in the name of Maussollos, satrap of Caria (377-353 BC).
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Instrumenti eiusdem ut Altitudinibus Capiendis
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Title page of Francis Bacon's Instauratio Magna (1620)
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Saami bride
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