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Cabinet - Sources

Archbishop William Laud and the Bishops' War (1639-40)
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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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Reimagination (Кыргызстан)
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Key innovation: the escapement
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Peter Mundy, 1634
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Instruments: described in the Saggi
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Globus Magnus Orichalcicus
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Saami bridegroom
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Artillery
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Poster "Educate the children to work"
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Drawing of a lake
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Missions in the Americas
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Verses to Tycho Brahe by Oliger Rosenkrantz
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BSH5: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment, c. 450–425 BC.
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Resettlement Registration Application (Tajikistan)
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ABC Books for Bukharan Jews (Central Asia)
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Runic Almanac
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Abyssinian roll of parchment
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JH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment.
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A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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Santucci's sphere, Florence, 1588-93
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Украшения бабушки (Кыргызстан)
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Clone of New plants from the New World
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Florentine Codex, Nahuas infected with smallpox (c. 1585)
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