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Cabinet - Sources

The Seven Liberal Arts
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Drawing to printed image: Blephilia
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4. Printing
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Five sculptural fragments from Persepolis
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Automata
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The Cotton Symbol (Uzbekistan)
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 40v
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Soviet Hovli: The standardized single-family house (Uzbekistan)
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Украшения бабушки (Кыргызстан)
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Drawing of mountains
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William Wordsworth, A Guide through the District of the Lakes in the North of England (Kendal, 1835)
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T17: Silver tetradrachm struck at Tarsos in the name of Alexander the Great, c. 333-327 BC.
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Drawing of a woman
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New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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Newton's Alchemical Sublimations
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Советская пиала (Узбекистан)
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Ivalo valley
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Перевод Дюшена (Таджикистан)
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Introduction and Contents
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Background: Botany in Ancient and Medieval Europe
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BSH15: Silver pennanular bracelet, from the Black Sea hoard
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50 Iranian Rial Banknote of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
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Studiolo of Francesco I de' Medici: Introduction
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