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Cabinet - Sources

Helioscope
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Venice from Nuremberg Chronicle
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Supplement regarding the subdivision and dioptre of the instruments
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Soviet Hovli: The standardized single-family house (Uzbekistan)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 140)
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Russian tailor’s apprentices
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Origins of paper
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Drawing of a Saami settlement on Lake Hammasjarvi
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Inscribed oracle bones, 12th century BCE
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JH9: Silver ingot cut from a rod or bracelet.
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Letter from Archer Baker to Edward Burnett Tylor, 17 January 1901
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Drawing of pottery vessels and other items
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T30: Silver shekel, struck at Tyre, c. 425-394 BC.
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Collegio Ghislieri, University of Pavia
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Fragment of the Rose Tapestries, wool and silk (1480s)
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'Tradescant's Orchard' Herbal
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BSH16: Half of silver penannular bracelet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Week 2: Sites and Sources
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Medal of “Motherhood” (Central Asia)
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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John Gerard, The herball or Generall historie of plantes (London, 1597)
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Comenius
Thomas Browne, 'Urne-Buriall' (1658)
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Prince Rupert's (1619-1682) plate
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