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Cabinet - Sources

The Cost of Books and the Cost of Living
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Reimagination
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Lithograph of men hunting sea lions
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Cantino world map, 1502
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Drawing of the interior of a Finnish house
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Samuel Puchas, Purchas his pilgrimes, vol. 3 (London, 1625)
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The key to miniaturisation: the Fusee, early 15th century
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Gnomonics
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III.2 Grammar as key to the tower of learning
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Week 3: Sites and Sources
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Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
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Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)
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Globus Magnus Orichalcicus
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Ukrainian vyshyvanka shirts in Soviet Pamir (Tajikistan)
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Enquiry about a missing soldier
Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, April 14, 1915
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Casting from life, c. 1560-70
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Clone of Pietro Perugino, The Delivery of Keys to St Peter (1481-1482)
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The Cyrus Cylinder (Again)
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Vitruvius on architecture
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Queenie Vol. VI, No. 1
18. The astrolabe
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Introduction: New inventions, c. 1600
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