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Cabinet - Sources

Clone of Humanist botany: the case of Dioscorides
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Descartes's correspondence
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Epilogue: 1470 and after
Clone of Jardin des Plantes in Paris (1636)
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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Book Forms: Handscrolls
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JH8: Silver bar-ingot, cut down to size from a larger bar.
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The world's earliest dated printed book: The Diamond Sutra, 868 CE
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Queenie Vol. VIII, No. 5
Drawing of pottery vessels
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Photo of Azamat Altay and Chingiz Aitmatov (USA-Kyrgyzstan)
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Europe c. 1000 AD
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Domenichino, Triumphal Arch (c. 1609)
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“Rest in peace, for we are awake”: The Iranian Celebrations of 1971.
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The mural, or Tychonian, quadrant
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BSH13: Silver bar-ingot (complete).
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Colophon, fol. 45v
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Oxford's Physick Garden
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Worked in precious threads
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Russian woman
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Xylography (woodblock printing)
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Tables (Tajikistan)
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Clone of The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Depictions of the Council of Trent
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