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Cabinet - Sources

Statue of Darius from Susa
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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Notes on ‘totemism’ by Edward Burnett Tylor
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Red-figure krater painted by the "Darius painter", c. 340-320 BC.
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Jacob Bobart the Elder (c.1599-1680)
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The Suitcase (Kazakhstan)
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Quadrant, England, brass (17th century)
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Attic Lekythos from Deve Hüyük
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II.1 Where, and what, was the university?
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Naqsh-e Rustam: Achaemenid Tombs and Sasanian Reliefs.
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A Renaissance Manuscript (MS Can. Ital. 101)
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Letter: "Homesteads for Women."
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Хлопковые весы (Таджикистан)
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The oldest sundials
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VI.5 Early milestones: Reformation disputations
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Albrecht Dürer, The Large Piece of Turf, 1503
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Darts
Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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William Wordsworth, A Guide through the District of the Lakes in the North of England (Kendal, 1835)
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A satchel for a scholar
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II.2 'Universitas': the original meaning of the term
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Philosophical Transactions, no. 178 (1685)
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Nautilus Cup with Eagle Claw (1526-1575)
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T25: Gold double-daric, “King with bow and spear”. Carradice Type 3.
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