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Cabinet - Sources

Poster "Educate the children to work"
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T20: Silver siglos, “King with bow and spear” Carradice Type 3.
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Xylography before typography, 1423 and after
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Хлопковые весы (Таджикистан)
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Inscription (Uzbekistan)
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David Teniers the Younger, The Alchemist (1643/45)
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The Idle Shepherd Boys (vol. 2)
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JH1: Silver stater of Messana (Sicily), c. 488–481 BC.
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Instruments: preserved in the Museo Galileo
Letter from Joseph Derbyshire
Saami woman
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The three perfections: poetry and painting
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The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Raphael, The Marriage of the Virgin (1504)
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Worked in precious threads
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Конфеты Кара-Кум (Центральная Азия)
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Russian woman
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Bibliography
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Saami woman
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Karaburun Tumulus II, early 5th century BC.
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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William Hogarth - The Analysis of Beauty (1753) Plate 1
Inscribed oracle bones, 12th century BCE
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