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Cabinet - Sources

The parallatic or ruler-instrument
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Copper engraving
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Lateral Wall Sulci Model
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Russian peasant
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JH10-JH17: Earrings from the Jordan hoard
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"Homesteads for Women" by Fanny Shepherd.
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Churches at Sodankylä
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Mosaic philosophy
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Cotton Combines (Tajikistan)
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens" May 26 1915
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The terrestrial sphere: the four terrestrial elements
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Medicinal objects in princely collections
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John Gerard, The herball or Generall historie of plantes (London, 1597)
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Key innovation: the escapement
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Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, c. 1490
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‘Samovar’ earrings
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The Apadana at Persepolis
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Three Wartime Photos of Usmon Akramov (Tajikistan)
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Title page of Francis Bacon's Instauratio Magna (1620)
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Anatomy theatre as museum
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The Campaigns of the Nabonidus Chronicle
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Russian man and boy
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Silver 'quasi-phiale' from the Lydian Treasure
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