Cabinet - Sources

New plants, new medicines
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Adaptation: Early papermaking in Italy, 1264
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Haida Helmet (3D)
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Luis de Camoens, The Lusiad (London, 1655)
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Mosaic (Kazakhstan)
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Box in the form of a crab, 16th-17th century
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Studiolo of Francesco I de Medici, 1570-75
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Notes on ‘totemism’ by Edward Burnett Tylor
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Tomb of Cyrus at Pasargadae
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Reimagination (Кыргызстан)
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Tycho Brahe's autograph verses of presentation to the Doge of Venice
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William Wordsworth, The Prelude (London, 1850)
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2. Magnetic Compass
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Toward miniaturisation: the Fusee
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11. The Windmill
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«Манас» Орозбакова (Кыргызстан)
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Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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Medieval European cartography, c. 1280: speculative and symbolic
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Advancement of Learning (Oxford, 1640)
Wellcome MS 349, fol. 22r
The 1491 First Edition of Dante's Lyric Poetry
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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