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Cabinet - Sources

Descartes's correspondence
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The Bibliophile Jean Grolier (1479-1565)
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The Medieval Worldview
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Introduction
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The Cost of Books and the Cost of Living
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The Holy Roman Empire
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Wadham College, 1610-13
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Lithograph of a Saami market
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JH1: Silver stater of Messana (Sicily), c. 488–481 BC.
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T25: Gold double-daric, “King with bow and spear”. Carradice Type 3.
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China under the Song Dynasty
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Wooden Cross (3D)
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Lantern clock with pyramid stand (c. 1700)
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Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Basel, 1542)
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Clone of A Musket Ball Puller in Dresden
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Medieval vs Early Modern Fortifications
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Female reproductive system
Visitors to the Bodleian
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Dutch Delft Militiamen, 1606-1674
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Lithograph of Saami sleds
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Urban VIII by Pietro da Cortona (c. 1624-1627)
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Museum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum, 1618: a visual commentary on the Emerald Tablet
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The Ming Empire (1368-1644)
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