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Cabinet - Sources

The Campaigns of the Nabonidus Chronicle
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William Holman Hunt, Study of four Eastern figures (c. 1870)
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Ghirlandaio, Confirmation of the Franciscan Rule (1485)
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Opera didactica omnia, 1657
Prince Rupert's (1619-1682) plate
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Soldier’s Letters
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Michael Maier (1568–1622)
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Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Robert Hanley Hall, 14 December 1899
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Albert Eckhout, African Woman (1641)
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Russian-Tajik Dictionary for Philosophical Terminology (Tajikistan)
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Heinrich Khunrath (c. 1560–1605)
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Repurposed buildings: churches
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Francis I Gallery at the Fontainbleau Castle
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The Achaemenids in the Shahnameh
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Medium sized azimuth quadrant of brass
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Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 444-5)
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Tradition
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Piero della Francesca, Flagellation (c.1455–1460)
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Clone of Humanist botany: the case of Dioscorides
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BSH8: Silver stater of Soloi (Cilicia), c. 440–420 BC.
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An Orthopaedic Stretcher, ca 1548-85
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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