Cabinet - Sources

Islam in the 9th Century
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Titian, Portrait of Isabella d'Este (c. 1534-1536)
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Tombstone (Uzbekistan)
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Wellcome MS 49, folios 35v-37v
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Lithograph of Saami men
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New plants from the New World
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Christopher Wren's (1632-1723) plate
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2. Magnetic Compass
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Drawing of Lake Vänern
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Бетонные заборы (Кыргызстан)
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Adhai-dvipa: Jain diagram of the world
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Introduction
Gül-yaka (Turkmenistan)
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Medieval Arabic cartography, 1154 CE: sophisticated representation of an expanding world
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Transcription: "'Our Weddin': A True Saskatchewan Story of Feb, 1916."
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Outflow water clock, ca 1350 BCE
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Gaudy 1988
Al-Idrīsī's world map, 1152
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The growth of the empire, c. 559-500 BC
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Printed model to printed image: Blechnum
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Two kingfishers
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Cyrus Cylinder from Babylon (BM)
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