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Cabinet - Sources

Week 7: Sites and Sources
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T12: Silver stater struck at Mallos in the name of the general Tiribazos, c. 384-383 BC.
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Russian man and woman
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Xylography (woodblock printing)
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Seal of Darius I (BM)
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T9: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Perikles of Limyra, c. 390-360 BC.
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Mentioned in Despatches certificate
Origins of paper
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Immortal fame
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The oldest sundials
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Man in the Moon
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Professor B F McGuinness
IV.4 The method for expounding authorities: the lecture
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John Tradescant the Younger with Roger Friend and a Collection of Exotic Shells
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Comenius
Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 428)
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Pietro da Cortona, Ceiling of Palazzo Barberini, Rome (1633-1639)
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Mongol Empire in 1290
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Russian peasant
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Polish man smoking a pipe
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Paper in Chinese folk culture
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Vitruvius on architecture
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T5: Gold stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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The Astrolabe
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