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Cabinet - Sources

Carried into exile
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Tubeteika (Uzbekistan)
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole reproduced in E. B. Tylor’s article, ‘Note on the Haida Totem-Post...’
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Bead Calculator
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Galileo's first telescopes, 1609-10
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Sextans Astronomicus Trigonicus
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)
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Different "Dantes" for the 20th Century
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Pre-civil war college plate
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Thomas Browne, 'Religio Medici' (1642)
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Drawing of Johanninpoika Marataja
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Automata
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Ewer formed from a Seychelles nut, Prague, 1602
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Saami man
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Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione (c.1514-1515)
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'Catalogus Herbarum ex horto Botanico Oxoniensi' (1676)
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Plate to print: carrot
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Russian woman
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Thomas Browne, 'Urne-Buriall' (1658)
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Brick-stamp from Ur (BM)
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Samuel Puchas, Purchas his pilgrimes, vol. 3 (London, 1625)
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Cells
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