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Cabinet - Sources

Indian Institute, Broad Street
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Title page (vol. 2)
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Domenico Remps, 1690s
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Stradanus, Distillation (Nova Reperta)
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Queenie
Richard of Wallingford's Astronomical Clock
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Cilicia: Sites and Sources
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Accessing unchained books
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Printing in Venice
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Printed model to printed image: Mimosa
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Room
The Swedish Empire, 1560-1815
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The transmission of knowledge: From manuscript to print
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The First 20 Years, 1450-1470: Earliest specimens in print
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The Astronomical Clock of Richard of Wallingford (d. 1336)
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Jan Mostaert, Landscape with an Episode from the Conquest of America (c. 1535)
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II.5 'Authentica habita': Academic garments to distinguish town from gown
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Lithograph of Stockholm
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Music: printing with movable type, 1501
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Oxford Physick Garden (1621)
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John of Sacrobosco, De Sphaera Mundi (Venice, 1490)
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The Ming Empire (1368-1644)
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Lithograph of Saami herding reindeer
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The Alexander Mosaic.
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