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Cabinet - Sources

Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 939 (section 5, verso)
Birth Certificate: Abrasha Levaevich Il’yasov (Uzbekistan)
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Celestial globe clock, Augsburg, 1584
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The Moynaq Canned Fish combine (Uzbekistan)
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Homesteading Eligibility Requirements
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The 1491 First Edition of Dante's Lyric Poetry
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Course description
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Russian woman
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The Houses of Tradescant and Ashmole, South Lambeth
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IV.5 The method for debating questions: the disputation
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Silver phiale with inscription of Artaxerxes I (BM)
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Boucher, The Invention of Drawing (18th century)
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The celestial sphere: the fifth element the geocentric cosmology
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Joseph Du Chesne (Quercetanus) (1546-1609)
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Quentin Metsys, Erasmus Medal (1519)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 222)
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Towers of the Orders before Merton
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John Parkinson's 'Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris' (1629)
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The 1727 Reprint of the Giuntina
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Antiquarianism in the Aegean
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Robert Fludd's Alchemical Philosophy and Medicine
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Duke Humfrey's Library before Bodley
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Zheltoqsan (Kazakhstan)
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Val and Ken Wyatt
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