Cabinet - Sources

Sonnets by Dante in a Lyric Miscellany (MS Can. Ital. 65)
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Inscribed oracle bones, 12th century BCE
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Hugh Robinson's Textbook (1616)
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Fanny's Scales
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‘Croat Woman in the Agram Market’
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Portable Sundials
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Photo of Azamat Altay and Chingiz Aitmatov (USA-Kyrgyzstan)
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Saami couple
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Drawing of a Saami cradle
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Lithograph of a Swedish man and woman
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Anatomical models
The world's earliest dated printed book (868)
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Philip Stephens and William Browne's 'Catalogus Horti Botanici Oxoniensis' (1658)
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Al-Idrīsī's world map, 1152
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 14 1915
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Transcription: "Hens Should Cackle All The Winter."
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Clone of Medieval gardens
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Churches at Sodankylä
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Polish basket sellers
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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The ancient papermaking process
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Translating the five orders: John Thorpe, 1601
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The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
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