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Cabinet - Sources

Lapis Philosophicus
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (stereograph)
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The Cost of Books and the Cost of Living
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Firearms: the earliest European image, 1326-7
Europe c. 1700
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Gnomonics
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Summary chronology of early printing
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Donum Dei
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Hemispherical bowl from Deve Hüyük
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John of Sacrobosco, De Sphaera Mundi (Venice, 1490)
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William Holman Hunt, Study of four Eastern figures (c. 1870)
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Ferrante Imperato, 1599
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Gunpowder Warfare
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Drawing of Mount Bjelašnica
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Andrea Palladio, Villa La Rotonda, Vicenza (1567-1585)
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The 1491 First Edition of Dante's Lyric Poetry
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Week 7: Sites and Sources
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A poetic monument to Soviet post-modernism (Tajikistan)
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Jan van der Straet, The Alchemist's Laboratory (1570)
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JH6: Silver stater of Paphos (Cyprus).
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JH7: Silver double-shekel of Tyre (Phoenicia).
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Natural philosophy and medicine: the Schools Quadrangle
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Francis Bacon, c. 1618
Cornelis Bega, The Alchemist (1663)
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