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Cabinet - Sources

Private Lives
Visitors to the Bodleian
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III.2 Grammar as key to the tower of learning
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Houses and totem poles in Masset
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Kepler's Mysterium cosmographicum, 1596
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II.1 Where, and what, is the university?
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Bronze phiale from Deve Hüyük
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Martin Behaim's globe, 1492
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Clone of The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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Young soldier in the Middle East
Church at Tornio
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Robert Hooke, 'Micrographia' (1665)
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II.1 Where, and what, was the university?
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JH9: Silver ingot cut from a rod or bracelet.
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Jaca Bastion Fort, Spain
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A fragmented polity
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Bodleian, MS Canon. Misc. 248, fol. 42r
Heavy artillery before gunpowder: the trebuchet
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Wellcome MS 49, fol. 35r
Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 200)
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The newly acquired Gothic coffer
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Relics
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Marsilio Ficino, De amore