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Cabinet - Sources

Karaburun Tumulus II, early 5th century BC.
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Reimagination
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Thomas Hariot, A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (Amsterdam, 1590)
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Joseph Du Chesne (Quercetanus) (1546-1609)
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The New St Peter's Basilica
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The Idle Shepherd Boys (vol. 2)
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 391(5), fol. 9r
JH8: Silver bar-ingot, cut down to size from a larger bar.
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The first map of 'America': the Waldseemüller map, 1507
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Forte Michelangelo, Civitavecchia, Roma (1508-1535)
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Theodor de Bry, Mining in Potosí (1596)
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Michelangelo, Last Judgment (1536-1541)
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Ukrainian vyshyvanka shirts in Soviet Pamir (Tajikistan)
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Johanes Stradanus, Nova reperta (1600)
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Automata
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Ceramic vessels, terrapin whistle and greenstone amulets, the Bay Islands, Cocal Period (1000–1530 AD)
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Drawing of the interior of a Finnish house
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Friar Bacon's Study and Folly Bridge
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Mentioned in Despatches certificate
Trench Art Shell Case (3D)
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Key innovation: the escapement
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2. Magnetic Compass
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The Apadana at Persepolis
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Fust and Schoeffer in Mainz, 1457-1466
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