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Cabinet - Sources

Baked potato
T20: Silver siglos, “King with bow and spear” Carradice Type 3.
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19. Copper engraving
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Bodleian, MS Digby 81, fol. 128v
Bladder fish
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Pope Julius II by Raphael (1511)
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Missions to Japan
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Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Frankfurt, 1598)
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Thomas Hariot, A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (Amsterdam, 1590)
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Indian Institute, Broad Street
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JH9: Silver ingot cut from a rod or bracelet.
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Lateral Wall Sulci Model
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Heavy artillery before gunpowder: the trebuchet
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Gentile Bellini, Procession in Piazza San Marco
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Calligraphy
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", May 5 1915
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Grandmother's spindle (Kyrgyzstan)
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Technological innovation, c. 1580
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Box in the form of a crab, 16th-17th century
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Stomach and digestive system
Reimagination
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Andrea Palladio, Villa Barbaro, Maser - Veneto (1554-1558)
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Target