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Cabinet - Sources

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 13002, folios 2v-3r
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Printing and the economy: the first paper money
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Tomb of Sharshembii Uulu Abdykadyr (Kyrgyzstan)
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T32: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the satrap Mazakes, (?) 331-323 BC (or earlier).
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Models of Saami men
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Tradition
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Map of Assyrian Empire (824 BC and 671 BC)
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The transmission of knowledge: From manuscript to print
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Samovar (RSFSR/Afghanistan, ca.1925)
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Brain and ocular system
Colophon, fol. 45v
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Saami man
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Kano Naizen, Portuguese Carrack in Nagasaki (late 16th-early 17th century)
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The mariner's astrolabe and Portuguese exploration
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The Idiot Boy (vol. 1)
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Bodleian, MS Canon. Misc. 559, fol. 2r
Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 184)
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Saami boy
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Mantegna, Saint Sebastian (1456–1457)
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William Burge and the abolition debate
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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Pietro da Cortona, Ceiling of Palazzo Barberini, Rome (1633-1639)
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Lithograph of church at Umeå
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Mongol Empire in 1290
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