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Cabinet - Sources

BSH18: Silver ram's head terminal, from the Black Sea hoard
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Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, fol. 244r
Florence, 1588-93: Santucci's sphere
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Writing Systems
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Albrecht Dürer, Rhinoceros, 1515
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Polish men
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Studiolo of Francesco I de Medici, 1570-75
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Mapping the moon
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BSH2: Silver octadrachm of the Bisaltai (Thrace), fragment, c. 465 BC.
Image for BSH2: Silver octadrachm of the Bisaltai (Thrace), fragment, c. 465 BC. Kraay and Moorey 1981, no.2 (SNG Ashmolean III 2244). [Obverse]
Archbishop William Laud and the Bishops' War (1639-40)
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Title page (vol. 2)
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Javelin-head from Deve Hüyük
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Soviet Hovli: The standardized single-family house (Uzbekistan)
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Hugh Robinson's Textbook (1616)
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Medieval European cartography, c. 1280: speculative and symbolic
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From the Bobarts' Herbaria to Morison's Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis (1699)
Icon of Mahatma Gandhi
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Netsuke representing Tanuki, the raccoon dog (3-D)
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Astronomical tower clocks, ca 1380-1588
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Introduction
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Supplement regarding the subdivision and dioptre of the instruments, fol. 44r
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T19: Silver siglos, “King shooting” Carradice Type 2.
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Follower of David Teniers the Younger, Alchemist in his Laboratory (early 18th century)
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