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Cabinet - Sources

A nurse's photo album
«Манас» Орозбакова (Кыргызстан)
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Lithograph of a Saami market
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Mosaic philosophy
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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Thomas Browne, 'Posthumous works' (1712)
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Cartography: the Waldseemüller map, 1507
Soviet Hovli: The standardized single-family house (Uzbekistan)
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Description of the various parts of the large main building
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Key innovation: the escapement
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Hemispherical silver bowl with gold appliqués (BM)
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Anthony Wood (1632-1695) and Postmaster's Hall
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Looking presidential
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A Florentine Poetic Anthology (MS Can. Ital. 99)
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Plate to print: carrot
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Ptolemy World Map, 1482
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10,000 rouble Banknote of the Turkestan Soviet Republic (1920)
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Pope as Antichrist
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Descartes's correspondence
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Map of the New World, 1544
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Redesigning the college library: Merton, 1589-90
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Bill of account from the Hudson’s Bay Company to Edward Burnett Tylor, 9 November 1900
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