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Cabinet - Sources

The Campaigns of the Nabonidus Chronicle
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Quadrans Maximus
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Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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Balagan (Central Asia)
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Pellets and Industrial Monotowns (Kazakhstan)
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Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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T29: Silver dishekel, struck at Tyre, c. 430 BC.
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New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, ff. 42v - 43r
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Finnish boy
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Parmigianino, Madonna of the Long Neck (1534-1540)
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Tycho Brahe's autograph verses of presentation to the Doge of Venice
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Crown “Tilla Kash” (Kyrgyzstan)
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Week 1: Sites and Sources
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BSH19: Fragment of silver sheet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Ceramic vessels, terrapin whistle and greenstone amulets, the Bay Islands, Cocal Period (1000–1530 AD)
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Zuccaro, Doorway to Palazzo Zuccari (1590)
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Head of a fly
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Buffalo Bill Cody
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John Calvin (1509-1564)
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Xylography before typography, 1423 and after
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Хлопок как символ (Узбекистан)
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John Donne's 1531 Convivio
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Memphis Customs Account
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