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Cabinet - Sources

The growth of the empire, c. 559-500 BC
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August of Saxony by Lucas Cranach jr., 1572
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Medieval Arabic cartography, 1154 CE: sophisticated representation of an expanding world
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Russian women
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Luther's Bible of 1541
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Map of the New World, 1544
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Headless Virgin and Child statue
The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 13002, folios 2v-3r
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Cataloguing the Physick Garden (1648 and 1658)
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Dedication (cont.)
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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 2
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From humanist manuscripts to italic pocketbooks: the Aldine press, 1501
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Prague, 1599-1612: The Rudolphine Tables (1627)
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Russian-Tajik Dictionary for Philosophical Terminology (Tajikistan)
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
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Lithograph of men hunting sea lions
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Soldier’s Letters
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An Anthology of Dante’s ‘Minor’ Works (MS Can. Ital. 114)
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Clone of Portable Sundials
A map of the spread of printing in Europe
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court (stereograph)
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Lunar volvelle
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Russian sleigh
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