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Cabinet - Sources

Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
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The growth of the empire, c. 559-500 BC
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Queenie Vol. VIII, No. 2
Columbus's lucky mistake: the oldest surviving terrestrial globe, 1492
Japanese pillar clock
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T18: Silver siglos, “King half-length” Carradice Type 1.
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The first superintendent: Jacob Bobart the Elder (c. 1599-1680)
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Saami man
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Письма солдата (Казахстан)
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Giambologna, The Rape of the Sabine Woman (1582)
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Wenzel Jamnitzer (c.1508-1585), Daphne
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Prisoner of War notification
Medieval vs Early Modern Fortifications
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Gallery of Maps, Vatican Palace, 1580-83
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Sundials in antiquity
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, April 28, 1915
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De aliis quibusdam Instrumentis nostris
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Анкета-заявление на переселение (Таджикистан)
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Lithograph of Saami herding reindeer
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Custom-made phonebook (Kazakhstan)
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Samovar (RSFSR/Afghanistan, ca.1925)
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Oxford's Physick Garden, 1621
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Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1875)
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