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Cabinet - Sources

The Waldseemüller map, 1507
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Karaburun Tumulus II, early 5th century BC.
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Cinnamon, peppercorns, nutmeg and cloves
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 21 1915
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Star Fort of Palmanova (1593)
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Translating the five orders: John Thorpe, 1601
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Bodleian, MS Digby 81, fol. 128v
Astronomical Clock of Su Song (1020-1101)
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William Holman Hunt, Study of four Eastern figures (c. 1870)
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Assyrian relief from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud
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Lithograph of Saami items
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Printing in Venice
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John Donne's 1531 Convivio
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Clone of Pietro Perugino, The Delivery of Keys to St Peter (1481-1482)
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Terrestrial longitude
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Мозаика (Казахстан)
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New plants, new medicines
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Zuccaro, Doorway to Palazzo Zuccari (1590)
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Astrolabe table clock
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T25: Gold double-daric, “King with bow and spear”. Carradice Type 3.
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Adaptation: Early papermaking in Italy, 1264
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Inscription of 'Cyrus' at Pasargadae
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Drawing of a Bulgarian settlement
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The world's earliest dated printed book (868)
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