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Cabinet - Sources

3. Gunpowder
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna with Four Saints (1505)
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Почетные грамоты (Казахстан)
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Planning the New Basilica
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The four terrestrial elements
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Leo X by Raphael (c. 1518)
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The mariner's astrolabe and Portuguese exploration
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The uses of the telescope, 1609-10
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (print)
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Qaragandy (Kazakhstan)
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Armillae Zodiacales
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Birth Certificate: Abrasha Levaevich Il’yasov (Uzbekistan)
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Map of Assyrian Empire (824 BC and 671 BC)
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Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Frankfurt, 1598)
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Commemorative postage stamps with architecture of Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
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The Rosary
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Sundials in the Renaissance
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Silver and gold phiale from the Lydian Treasure
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«Манас» Орозбакова (Кыргызстан)
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Saami boys
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BSH9: Silver stater of King Onasi-, Paphos (Cyprus), probably c. 450-420 BC.
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, April 14, 1915
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Ашкеназские евреи в Центральной Азии
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II.2 'Universitas': the original meaning of the term
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