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Cabinet - Sources

The parallatic or ruler-instrument
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John Gerard, The herball or Generall historie of plantes (London, 1597)
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A New Profession
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Lapis Philosophicus
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Ball gown
The four treasures of the study: ink, inkstone, brush, and paper
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Anatomy theatres
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Anecdote About Homesteading from George Shepherd
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Parmigianino, Madonna of the Long Neck (1534-1540)
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Week 1: Sites and Sources
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Wadham College, 1610-13
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Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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Imser Planetary Clock, ca 1554-61
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Queenie
Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach, 1710
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Astronomical tower clocks, ca 1380-1588
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 324)
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Oxford as a Window on Seventeenth-Century Science
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Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528)
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From decoration to illustration
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (print)
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Dombra of Dina Nurpeisova (Kazakhstan)
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The Holy Roman Empire
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"Achaemenid Bowl" from Deve Hüyük (A)
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