Cabinet - Sources

Quadratura circuli (1643): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking north-east across the Court
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Cinnamon, peppercorns, nutmeg and cloves
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Ruin
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Planning the New Basilica
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The spread of printing in Europe, 1455-1500
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T23: Silver 1/32 siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon (England, late 14th century)
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'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' manuscript (17th century)
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Robert Boyle's (1627-1691) plate
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Глиняная свистулька (Узбекистан и Таджикистан)
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Plaque with note
Saami women
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Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’, east end of the Court
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The Drake Chair
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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Calligraphy
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Gunpowder in the Nova reperta
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Convocation House, 1634-7
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Cells
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Brick-stamp from Ur (BM)
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Georg Christoph Stirn, 1638
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Clone of Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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