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Cabinet - Sources

Picture postcards
Introduction
Armillae AEquatoriae maximae
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Finding the qibla
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Book Forms: Bound Volumes
V. Schools Quadrangle
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Monographing plants
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Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione (c.1514-1515)
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Dedication (cont.)
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Cylinder seal with royal hero and Bes figure
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Plate to print: process
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'Tradescant's Orchard' Herbal
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Russian bread seller
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Ancient Egyptian scarab beetles (c. 3100–525 BC)
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Jan van der Straet, The Alchemist's Laboratory (1570)
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Letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Henry Balfour, 21 November 1901
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European bellicosity, 1100-1700
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Turkmen earrings gulak-halka (Turkmenistan)
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Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
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Tomb of Sharshembii Uulu Abdykadyr (Kyrgyzstan)
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Illustrations
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A Renaissance Manuscript (MS Can. Ital. 101)
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IV.5 The method for debating questions: the disputation
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Clone of Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica cover (in depth)
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