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Cabinet - Sources

Summary chronology of early printing
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Writing Systems
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BSH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, c. 450–425 BC.
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Clone of Herbal of Leonhard Fuchs (1542)
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Menu
A poem written by Christopher Wordsworth at Winchester
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Introduction
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Timeline of voyages
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Saami woman
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Venice from Nuremberg Chronicle
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Inscribed oracle bones, 12th century BCE
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (glass negative)
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The Cyrus Cylinder (Again)
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 410-11)
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 420-21)
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Heavy artillery before gunpowder: the trebuchet
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Happy Birthday
Ecclesiastical territories: the bishop of Würzburg as a reforming prince, 1573-1617
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A poetic monument to Soviet post-modernism (Tajikistan)
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The printing process
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Letter from Laurence Dunne
Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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Unique prints
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Writing For and By Women
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