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Cabinet - Sources

The world's earliest dated printed book: The Diamond Sutra, 868 CE
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Vase made of artillery shell
Pharmacies and Alchemical Laboratories
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Depictions of the Council of Trent
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Male reproductive system
Bodleian, MS Canon. Misc. 248, fol. 42r
The Schools Quadrangle, 1613-24
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II.5 'Authentica habita': Academic garments to distinguish town from gown
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The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
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Anaphoric water clock, ca 50 BCE
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Houses and totem poles in Masset
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Man in the Moon
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Week 7: Sites and Sources
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The mariner's astrolabe and Portuguese exploration
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 200)
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Piero della Francesca, Flagellation (c.1455–1460)
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Lithograph of Saami items
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Letter from Laurence Dunne
"Tutto Dante"
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Transcription: "A Year and a Day."
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The Indian Institute
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Quadratura circuli (1643): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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