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Cabinet - Sources

Tubeteika (Uzbekistan)
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The woodcut as high art form: Dürer, 1498
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Delftware Vase, Netherlands, tin-glazed earthenware with underglaze blue decoration (c. 1680)
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Wadham College, 1610-13
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Canonizing the five orders: Sebastiano Serlio, 1537/1611
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Venetian territories and trade routes
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Astrolabes: How do they work?
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Printed model to printed image: Mimosa
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Heavy artillery before gunpowder: the trebuchet
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Joan's Short Story
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The key to miniaturisation: the Fusee, early 15th century
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Fanny the Writer: "Mother Amazed Us All."
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Bramante, Tempietto (c. 1502)
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John Tradescant the Younger with Roger Friend and a Collection of Exotic Shells
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Printed model to printed image: Blechnum
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JH7: Silver double-shekel of Tyre (Phoenicia).
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Mosaic (Kazakhstan)
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Background: Botany in Ancient and Medieval Europe
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"Harpy" Tomb, c. 480 BC
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BSH6: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class A”), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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Drawing of a man
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Prague, 1584: Celestial globe clock
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Ismail al-Jazari's Elephant clock, ca 1200
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John Gerard's 'The herball' (1633)
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