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Cabinet - Sources

Abyssinian roll of parchment
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 406-7)
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Cotton Combines (Tajikistan)
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The Woman Who Did
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Dedication (cont.)
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Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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Translocation: the transfer of papermaking to Europe
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The Life of Sir Thomas Browne
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Qingbai Bowl, Southern Song dynasty, porcelain (12th Century)
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Battle of White Mountain (8 November 1620)
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Casting from life, c. 1560-70
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Украшения бабушки (Кыргызстан)
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Drawing of Lake Hammasjarvi
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II.6 Academic hierarchies
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Drawing of a woman
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Stele of Xerxes from the Hierothesion of Antiochus I.
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JH9: Silver ingot cut from a rod or bracelet.
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Drawing of the church at Piteå
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Телефонная книжка (Казахстан)
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MS Ashmole 399, folios 14r-15r
Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘On the Totem-Post from the Haida Village of Masset...’ (1899)
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Анкета-заявление на переселение (Таджикистан)
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Private Lives
Reimagination (Кыргызстан)
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