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Cabinet - Sources

Translation of the Qu'ran by Sayyid Mahmud Tarazi (Uzbekistan/India)
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Fust and Schoeffer in Mainz, 1457-1466
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Oriel
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Mercator, World Map (1569)
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Follower of David Teniers the Younger, Alchemist in his Laboratory (early 18th century)
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'Catalogus Herbarum ex horto Botanico Oxoniensi' (1676)
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Outflow water clock, ca 1350 BCE
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T8: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Mithrapata of Antiphellos, c. 390-360 BC.
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Глиняная свистулька (Узбекистан и Таджикистан)
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Introduction
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The earliest book printed with movable type (1377)
Columbus's lucky mistake: the oldest surviving terrestrial globe, 1492
Поэтический памятник советского постмодернизма (Таджикистан)
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The growth of the empire, c. 559-500 BC
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Oswald Croll, Basilica chymica, 1609
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Week 3: Sites and Sources
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Свидетельство репрессий (Кыргызстан)
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Assyrian relief from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud
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Russian peasant
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Thomas Browne, 'Religio Medici' (1644)
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T3: Silver didrachm in the name of Pixodaros, satrap of Caria (340-335 BC).
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The world's earliest dated printed book: The Diamond Sutra, 868 CE
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Saami child
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Natural philosophy and medicine: the university curriculum
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