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Cabinet - Sources

Conical dial
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Cantino world map (1502)
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Musaeum Calceolarii, 1622
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John Danvers' plate
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South Porch, University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, 1637
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Runic Almanac
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The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Family portraits
Saami couple
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Fanny's Scales
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Letters Patent of Edward III (1347)
Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531)
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Thomas Browne, 'Religio Medici' (1644)
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The New St Peter's Basilica
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The 1727 Reprint of the Giuntina
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The 1532 Venetian Reprint of the Giuntina
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Anatomical Theatres
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The Astronomical Clock of Richard of Wallingford (d. 1336)
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Joseph Du Chesne (Quercetanus) (1546-1609)
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'Like a bundle of thin laths'
VI.6 The Reformation as disputation
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Prague, 1584: Celestial globe clock
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Novum Testamentum Graece (Strasbourg, 1524)
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Cricket