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Cabinet - Sources

The parallatic or ruler-instrument
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‘Croatian Pottery’
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Great azimuth semicircle
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Tower of the Five Orders, 1613-24
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Консервированные огурцы (Кыргызстан)
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Refurbishing Duke Humphrey's, 1598-1602
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Frans Post, A Sugar Mill Driven by a Small River (c.1650-1655)
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Terracotta 'Persian rider' from Selemieh
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Lithograph of Stockholm
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Нагрудный туристический значок «Биби-Ханым»
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T32: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the satrap Mazakes, (?) 331-323 BC (or earlier).
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Runic Almanac
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Gunpowder Warfare
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Week 6: Sites and Sources
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The woodcut as high art form: Dürer, 1498
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Hemispherical sundial
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From humanist manuscripts to italic pocketbooks: the Aldine press, 1501
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Proof, plate editing and print
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 14 1915
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Russian fruit seller
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The Houses of Tradescant and Ashmole, South Lambeth
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Marshall Refracting Microscope, c. 1715
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