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Cabinet - Sources

Chess-Man
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Lodestone and iron nails
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Почтовые марки с изображениями архитектурных памятников Самарканда (Узбекистан)
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5. Mechanical clock
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Вымпел Невада-Семипалатинск (Казахстан)
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Augsburg cabinet, ca 1650
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Enquiry about a missing soldier
Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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T3: Silver didrachm in the name of Pixodaros, satrap of Caria (340-335 BC).
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Maps as symbols of power: Gallery of Maps, Vatican Palace, 1580-83
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Printing and the economy: the first paper money
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Palazzo Carignano, Turin (1679)
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna with Four Saints (1505)
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Soldier portraits
William Hogarth - The Analysis of Beauty (1753) Plate 1
Надгробный камень (Узбекистан)
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The key to miniaturisation: the Fusee, early 15th century
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Small quadrant of gilt brass
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Mentioned in Despatches certificate
Saami group
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III.5 Common hierarchies
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Philosophical Transactions, no. 178 (1685)
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William Wordsworth, The Prelude (London, 1850)
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The Moynaq Canned Fish combine (Uzbekistan)
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