Cabinet - Sources

Voyages of Zheng He (1405-1433)
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Columbian exchanges
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II.1 Where, and what, is the university?
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Finnish boatmen
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Vase made of artillery shell
Joris Hoefnagel, Insects, c. 1590-1600
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Russian man
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The astrolabe
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John Wilkins
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Transitions to print: Virgil, Eclogues (Aldus Manutius, 1501)
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Philip Stephens and William Browne's 'Catalogus Horti Botanici Oxoniensis' (1658)
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Man in the Moon
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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What was printed in the 15th century?
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China under the Song Dynasty
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BSH11: Silver ingot (ovoid).
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Xylography before typography, 1423 and after
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Week 3: Sites and Sources
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Sundials in 17th-century Oxford
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II.5 'Authentica habita': Academic garments to distinguish town from gown
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Queen Elizabeth I Feeding the Dutch Cow
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Frans (II) Francken, c. 1620-25
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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