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Cabinet - Sources

Printing and the economy: the first paper money
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Nevada-Semipalatinsk pennant (Kazakhstan)
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Wooden Cross (3D)
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Head of a fly
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Galileo's most decisive telescopic observation: the phases of Venus, 1610-23
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Astronomical tower clocks, ca 1380-1588
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A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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Carried into exile
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Automata
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Sentimental cards
Studiolo of Francesco I de Medici, 1570-75
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Anatomical videos
Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Drawing of three people
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Antiquarianism in the Aegean
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New medicines, new collections: From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Map of the New World, 1544
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Museum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum, 1618: a visual commentary on the Emerald Tablet
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Gunpowder Warfare
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The transmission of knowledge: From manuscript to print
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1979 offer letter
Columbus's lucky mistake: the oldest surviving terrestrial globe, 1492
Spain and Portugal Demarcation Lines
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Terrestrial longitude
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