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Cabinet - Sources

Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 3
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Anabaptism in Early Modern Europe
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10. The Watermill
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Medium sized azimuth quadrant of brass
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A Poetic Anthology from the Veneto (MS Can. Ital. 81)
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Santucci's sphere, Florence, 1588-93
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Clay Whistle (Tajikistan and Uzbekistan)
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BSH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, c. 450–425 BC.
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Printed model to printed image: Blechnum
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Delftware Vase, Netherlands, tin-glazed earthenware with underglaze blue decoration (c. 1680)
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Astronomical tower clocks, ca 1380-1588
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The World in 1700
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Pope as Antichrist
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Bodleian, MS Digby 81, fol. 128v
Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 382)
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Домбра Дины Нурпеисовой (Казахстан)
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Clone of San Zeno Wheel (Verona, c. 1450)
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Richard Verstegan, Theatrum Crudelitatem Haereticorum Nostri Temporis (1587)
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Saami woman
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Drawing of a camp-fire
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The Cost of Books and the Cost of Living
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