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Cabinet - Sources

Thomas Hariot, A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (Amsterdam, 1590)
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2. Magnetic Compass
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 392-3)
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Anatomy: a manual art, 1493
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Tower of the Five Orders, 1613-24
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Darius' Red Sea Canal Stele
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Portable Sundials
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T8: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Mithrapata of Antiphellos, c. 390-360 BC.
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Spoon of decorated reindeer antler
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Clone of Humanist botany: the case of Dioscorides
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 13002, folios 2v-3r
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Astrological tool
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Letters from Samuel Bodger
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Introduction
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Sewing machine
Writing Systems
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Medicinal objects in princely collections
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Bibliography
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Translating the five orders: John Thorpe, 1601
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Xerxes and the Persians in "300".
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Exhibition case
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A box to 'kindle therein any fire or flame'?
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Pellets and Industrial Monotowns (Kazakhstan)
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A poem written by Christopher Wordsworth at Winchester
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