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Cabinet - Sources

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Arabic map: the Maghreb Chart, ca 1325-50
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Ottoman Turkish map: fragment of the world map of Piri Reis, 1513
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BSH17: Silver jug handles, from the Black Sea hoard
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Instruments: preserved in the Museo Galileo
Pietro da Cortona, Dying St Alessio (c. 1638)
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Transcription: "'Our Weddin': A True Saskatchewan Story of Feb, 1916."
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V.2 The 'studia humanitatis': what was at stake?
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III.2 Grammar as key to the tower of learning
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Queenie
Russian man
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The Cost of Books and the Cost of Living
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Russian women
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 12 1915
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Astronomical tower clocks, ca 1380-1588
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Pilgrimage and the Jubilee
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3D scans of rock structures
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Automaton monk, probably Spanish, ca 1550
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Clement VII by Sebastiano del Piombo (c. 1531)
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Телефонная книжка (Казахстан)
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Dodo (Raphus cucullatus)
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I.2. College foundations in Oxford and Cambridge, 1249-1878
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Astronomical Clock of Su Song (1020-1101)
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Texture of plants
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