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Cabinet - Sources

V.1 ‘Humanism’: an educational curriculum
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T23: Silver 1/32 siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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Printed model to printed image: Blechnum
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Cartography: the Waldseemüller map, 1507
Music: printing with movable type, 1501
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Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole reproduced in E. B. Tylor’s article, ‘Note on the Haida Totem-Post...’
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Arabic map: the Maghreb Chart, ca 1325-50
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Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)
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BSH2: Silver octadrachm of the Bisaltai (Thrace), fragment, c. 465 BC.
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William Wordsworth, The Prelude (London, 1850)
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Silver denarius
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Plaque with note
Drawing of a saddled reindeer
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Alchemical Laboratory
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Books on bamboo
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Transcription: "Hens Should Cackle All The Winter."
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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Abyssinian roll of parchment
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Houses and totem poles in Masset
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Architectural drawing as craft skill
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Domenichino, Triumphal Arch (c. 1609)
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Medicinal objects in princely collections
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Medieval European cartography, c. 1280: speculative and symbolic
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John Tradescant the Elder
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