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Cabinet - Sources

Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort's (1630-1715) plate
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Finnish boy
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Certificates of appreciation (Kazakhstan)
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William Wordsworth, A Guide through the District of the Lakes in the North of England (Kendal, 1835)
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Museum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum, 1618: a visual commentary on the Emerald Tablet
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Quadrant, England, brass (17th century)
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Xylography (woodblock printing)
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Silver 'quasi-phiale' from the Lydian Treasure
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V. Schools Quadrangle
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The Ming Empire (1368-1644)
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Thomas Hobbes
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Dedication (cont.)
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The Achaemenids in the Shahnameh
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The mural, or Tychonian, quadrant
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Fanny's Chickens
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Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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A Poetic Anthology from the Veneto (MS Can. Ital. 81)
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Saami woman
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A cook in the trenches
Queenie Vol. VIII, No. 3
Jan Treck, Still Life with a Pewter Jug and Two Porcelain Plates (1649)
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Kara-kum Sweets (Central Asia)
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Произведение искусства Сюзан Бушнак (Узбекистан)
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