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Cabinet - Sources

The problem of mobility: Mons Meg, 1449-97
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Week 7: Sites and Sources
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Drawing of an Alchemical House from Libavius (1606)
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Бетонные заборы (Кыргызстан)
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T25: Gold double-daric, “King with bow and spear”. Carradice Type 3.
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A Poetic Anthology from the Veneto (MS Can. Ital. 81)
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Transcription: "Women and Land."
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Letters Patent of Edward III (1347)
Spoon of decorated reindeer antler
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The Idle Shepherd Boys (vol. 2)
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The woodcut as high art form: Dürer, 1498
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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Leo X by Raphael (c. 1518)
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Cyrus Cylinder from Babylon (BM)
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Archbishop William Laud and the Bishops' War (1639-40)
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Goblet made from a bezoar, Prague c. 1600
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Justus Lipsius (1547-1606)
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Commemorative postage stamps with architecture of Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
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A map of the spread of printing in Europe: where the books are today
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Мозаика (Казахстан)
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Hooke's microscope
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Venetian territories and trade routes
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