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Cabinet - Sources

Introduction
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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Clone of San Zeno Wheel (Verona, c. 1450)
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Hooke's Micrographia, 1665
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Drawing of a lake
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Drawing of a Saami settlement on Lake Hammasjarvi
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II.1 Where, and what, was the university?
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 399, folios 18r-22r
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Lithograph of Saami men
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JH3: Silver stater of Thasos, fragment.
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9. Stirrups
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II.5 'Authentica habita': Academic garments to distinguish town from gown
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Joris Hoefnagel, Insects, c. 1590-1600
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New medicines, new collections: From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Albrecht Dürer, Rhinoceros, 1515
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Crown “Tilla Kash” (Kyrgyzstan)
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Advancement of Learning (Oxford, 1640)
Saami man
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Lithograph of Saami fishermen
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Jan van Kessel, the Elder, c. 1650-3.
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‘Head of Brenese Peasant’
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III.3 The Seven Liberal Arts