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Cabinet - Sources

‘Croatian Pottery’
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Printed model to printed image: Cyclamen
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Pierre Belon, 'De aquatilibus, Libri duo' (1553)
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Shrunken Glove (3D)
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‘Totem Poles’, an imaginary view of a Haida village by Louis Fairfax Muckley
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Ocelot skull
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The printing process
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VI.8 Institutionalising humanist philology
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Behistun relief and inscription
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VI.2 The overall pattern: matriculations and foundations
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Russian wet nurse
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Pre-civil war college plate
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Embriachi Casket (3D)
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Goblet made from a bezoar, Prague c. 1600
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Mongol Empire in 1290
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Automata
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Albrecht Dürer, Erasmus of Rotterdam (1526)
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Astrolabe table clock
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T7: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Kuprlli of Xanthos, c. 480-420 BC.
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Key innovation: the escapement
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Tomb of Darius at Naqsh-e Rustam
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Clone of New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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I. America
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Star Fort of Palmanova (1593)
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