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Cabinet - Sources

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Russian basket seller
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Article featuring Helen Carmichael
Chinese books before paper
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, April 14, 1915
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The Tradescant family tomb
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Eurasia and Africa c. 1025 AD
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Lighter
Andrea Pozzo, Ceiling of Sant'Ignazio Church, Rome (1685)
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Thomas McGarry
Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Meydancıkkale
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The Bibliophile Jean Grolier (1479-1565)
Image for Jean Grolier bookbinding - Omnia Opera Angeli Politiani (1498)
Ball gown
The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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Repurposed buildings: houses, residences, palaces
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Firearms: the earliest European image, 1326-7
University botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Cotton Combines (Tajikistan)
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‘Peoples of the USSR’ – Postage Stamp Collection (Central Asia)
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Drawing of Lake Hammasjarvi
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8. Silk or the silk worm
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T4: Silver tetradrachm struck in western Asia Minor (?), c. 341-334 BC.
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Heinrich Khunrath (c. 1560–1605)
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