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Cabinet - Sources

Friar Bacon's Study and Folly Bridge
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Seal of Darius I (BM)
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Papal Coin, John XXII
Printed model to printed image: Mimosa
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Wellcome MS 49, fol. 38r
Statue of Buddha
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Saami bride
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South Porch, University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, 1637
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Stamp Seal Pendant from the Lydian Treasure
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Automata
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Tomb of Darius at Naqsh-e Rustam
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Pickled Cucumbers (Kyrgyzstan)
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Arts End, 1610-12
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Queenie Vol. VIII, No. 2
Mercator, World Map (1569)
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Week 2: Sites and Sources
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Pioneer scarf (Tajikistan)
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Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society, 1667
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Inscribed oracle bones, 12th century BCE
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Visualizing 'The Movement of the Heart and the Blood in Living Creatures' (1628)
Harvey de motu cordis
Piazza del Popolo (c. 1662-1681)
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Finnish couple
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Summary chronology of early printing
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Saami women
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