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Cabinet - Sources

Mariner’s astrolabe, Spain, bronze (c. 1600)
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Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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Советские ховли: типовой одноквартирный дом (Узбекистан)
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Oxford's defences, 1648
‘Samovar’ earrings
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Indian Institute, Broad Street
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Prince Rupert's (1619-1682) plate
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VI.9 Unintended consequences
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Domenico Remps, 1690s
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Drawing of a mountain
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Saami woman
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Russian basket seller
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Arrowheads from Deve Hüyük
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A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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BSH3: Silver tetradrachm of Akanthos (Chalcidice), fragment, c. 470 BC.
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Маца (Казахстан)
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Small quadrant of gilt brass
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Introduction
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Robert Hooke, 'Micrographia' (1665)
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Johann Cogler, Lutheran Sacrament of the Altar (1558)
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Another parallatic or ruler-instrument which shows the altitudes as well as the azimuths
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‘Old Castle of Doboj’
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Свидетельство о рождении Абраши Леваевича Ильясова (Узбекистан)
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Vatican Library, MS Pal.lat. 1325, fol. 349v