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Cabinet - Sources

The four terrestrial elements
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Islamic calligraphy
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Хлопковые весы (Таджикистан)
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Ottoman Turkish map: fragment of the world map of Piri Reis, 1513
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Lateral Wall Gyri Model - Functional
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Man
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The not so ‘dark side’
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Writing For and By Women
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Writing Systems
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Johann König, Last Judgement on alabaster, before 1632
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Finnish man
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
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Transcription: "The Star's Letter Box."
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Chinese Alchemy
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Depictions of the Council of Trent
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Johannes Kepler, 'Harmonices Mundi' (1619)
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking south-east across the Court
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The newly acquired Gothic coffer
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Columbus's lucky mistake: the oldest surviving terrestrial globe, 1492
Украинские рубашки-вышиванки на Советском Памире (Таджикистан)
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Botticelli, The Calumny of Apelles (1496-1497)
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Thomas Browne, 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' (1672)
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