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Cabinet - Sources

Medieval vs Early Modern Fortifications
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Drawing of the interior of a church
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De Sphera
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The Campaigns of the Nabonidus Chronicle
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Brain and ocular system
Browne's Collection: a 'Cabinet of Rarities'
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T6: Silver stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Поэтический памятник советского постмодернизма (Таджикистан)
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Medal of “Motherhood” (Central Asia)
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Casino di San Marco: 'The House of Nature'
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Man in the Moon
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Week 7: Sites and Sources
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Languages of East Asia
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Fust and Schoeffer in Mainz, 1457-1466
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Quadrant, England, brass (17th century)
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John Parkinson's 'Theatrum botanicum' (1640)
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Riemann surface
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Lake Suolajarvi
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V.3 Grammar: a window on the ancient world
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‘Head of Slavonian’
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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Francis Bacon at 17 years of age, 1578
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16. Terrestrial longitude
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Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, fol. 244r