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Cabinet - Sources

Worked in precious threads
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Medal of “Motherhood” (Central Asia)
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Macrocosm and microcosm
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Toward miniaturisation: the Fusee
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court (stereograph)
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The problem of mobility: Mons Meg, 1449-97
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Heinrich Khunrath (c. 1560–1605)
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Rice fields (Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan)
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Cotton Combines (Tajikistan)
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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘On Two British Columbian House-Posts...’ (1899)
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Statue of Darius from Susa
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Genoese territories and trade routes
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Homesteading Eligibility Requirements
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From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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The First 20 Years, 1450-1470: Earliest specimens in print
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 222)
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Wellcome MS 49, fol. 38r
Oldenburg's correspondence
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Clone of Icon of Mahatma Gandhi
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Clone of Herbal of Leonhard Fuchs (1542)
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Canonizing the five orders: Sebastiano Serlio, 1537/1611
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Naming plants
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Pellets and Industrial Monotowns (Kazakhstan)
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Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)
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