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Cabinet - Sources

Official letters
Silver phiale with inscription of Artaxerxes I (BM)
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Letter from Archer Baker to Edward Burnett Tylor, 17 January 1901
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Ribeiro planisphere of 1529
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Astrolabes: How do they work?
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Khaki University Structure
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The Apadana at Persepolis
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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11. The Windmill
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Printed model to printed image: Mimosa
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Saami bride
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking north-east across the Court
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Colleges
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Russian man and woman
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Models of a Saami couple
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Queenie Vol. VIII, No. 2
Bodleian, MS Ashmole 399, folios 18r-22r
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Monstrances
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking south-east across the Court
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Sources: nature, reason, experience, and tradition
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Autobiography of Udjahorresne
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Plan of Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
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The woodcut as high art form: Dürer, 1498
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Wenzel Jamnitzer (c.1508-1585), Silver writing box
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