Cabinet - Sources

The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus
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John Danvers' plate
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T30: Silver shekel, struck at Tyre, c. 425-394 BC.
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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VI.8 Institutionalising humanist philology
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Jan van der Straet, The Alchemist's Laboratory (1570)
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JH7: Silver double-shekel of Tyre (Phoenicia).
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Russian man and woman
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Drawing of three people
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court
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The Decrees of the Council of Trent
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Danger
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Examination Papers (1978)
Printing and the economy: the first paper money
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Bodleian, MS Canon. Misc. 559, fol. 2r
Lateral Wall Sulci Model
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Anonymous 'Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis' (1648)
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Beer cellar
Lunar volvelle
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Clone of Oxford Physick Garden (1621)
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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Pierre Gassendi, 'Institutio Astronomica' (1683)
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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