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Cabinet - Sources

Homesteading Eligibility Requirements
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Kano Naizen, Portuguese Carrack in Nagasaki (late 16th-early 17th century)
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BSH2: Silver octadrachm of the Bisaltai (Thrace), fragment, c. 465 BC.
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Clone of The four humours of Galenic medicine
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The mariner's astrolabe and Portuguese exploration
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Verses in praise of Tycho Brahe by Rudolph Caukerchius, fols. 44v-45r.
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Hooke's microscope, 1665
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Depictions of the Council of Trent
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Самовар (РСФСР/Афганистан, ок. 1925)
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna and Child (1488)
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Russian woman
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Поэтический памятник советского постмодернизма (Таджикистан)
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Transcription: "Mother's Holiday."
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Arcimboldo, Rudolf II as Vertumnus (1590-1591)
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Ecclesiastical territories: the palace of the prince-bishop of Würzburg
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Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
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Cabinet for Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, 1632
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Коллекция почтовых марок «Народы СССР» (Центральная Азия)
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Queenie Vol. VI, No. 1
Necklace with acorn pendants from the Lydian Treasure
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Philip II's El Escorial (1564-1584)
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 42r
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Europe c. 1000 AD
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