Cabinet - Sources

Gunpowder Warfare
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Heinrich Khunrath, 'Ora et Labora' (1609)
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Gentile Bellini, Procession in Piazza San Marco
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Saami woman
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The microcosm: The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Palazzo Carignano, Turin (1679)
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16. Terrestrial longitude
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Danger
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6. Guaiacum and syphilis
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Browne's Collection: a 'Cabinet of Rarities'
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Clone of Portable Sundials
Astrological tool
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Clone of New plants, new medicines
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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'Star forts', 'gunpowder fortifications', and the 'trace italienne'
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Robert Fludd's Alchemical Philosophy and Medicine
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II.1 Where, and what, is the university?
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Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)
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China under the Song Dynasty
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking south-east across the Court
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Central Oxford in 1643
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Bodleian, MS Canon. Misc. 559, fol. 2r
John Calvin (1509-1564)
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Portrait of John Case
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