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Cabinet - Sources

Marshall Refracting Microscope, c. 1715
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Русско-таджикский словарь философской терминологии (Таджикистан)
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The 1532 Venetian Reprint of the Giuntina
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Gilt silver rhyton (BM)
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 28 August 1902
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Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, MS C 54, fol. 41v
Anecdote About Homesteading from George Shepherd
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Descartes's correspondence
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Donum Dei
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Domenico Remps, 1690s
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Тюбетейка (Узбекистан)
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Cornelis Bega, The Alchemist (1663)
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Oxford Physick Garden (1621)
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Saami woman
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'Tradescant's Orchard' Herbal
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Crucifix Dial, Adriaan Zeelst (1588)
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The Idiot Boy (vol. 1)
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Globe cup, Zurich c. 1580–90
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Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Robert Hanley Hall, 14 December 1899
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Astronomical table clock
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Painting with oils: a recent invention
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Resettlement Registration Application (Tajikistan)
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Drawing of the Church of Saint Jacob in Hudiksvall
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 3
Image for First page of Robert Morison (1699) Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis pars tertia seu Herbarum distributio nova,: per tabulas cognationis & affinitatis ex libro naturae observata & detecta. Oxonii, E theatro Sheldoniano.