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Cabinet - Sources

JH2: Silver tetradrachm of Akanthos (Chalcidice), fragment, c. 470 BC.
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Repurposed buildings: houses, residences, palaces
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‘Croatian Clothes-shop, Agram’
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Iconoclasm in the Low Countries
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The spread of printing in Europe, 1455-1500
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Clone of Bezoar
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Raphael, The Marriage of the Virgin (1504)
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The world's earliest dated printed book: The Diamond Sutra, 868 CE
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Lithograph of Saami herding reindeer
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Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
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Soviet Hovli: The standardized single-family house (Uzbekistan)
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The key to miniaturisation: the Fusee, early 15th century
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Sundials in Oxford today
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Hierarchies
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Title page of Through Bosnia and the Herzegóvina on Foot... (1876)
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John Wilkins
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Islam in the 9th Century
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (print)
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Rudolf II by Hans von Aachen (1606/1608)
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​Boats on the Torne river
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The Campaigns of the Nabonidus Chronicle
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Scales Narrative
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Houses and totem poles in Masset
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