Cabinet - Sources

'Catalogus Herbarum ex horto Botanico Oxoniensi' (1676)
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Cataloguing the Physick Garden (1648 and 1658)
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 42r
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Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Archer Baker, 18 January 1901
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
Canadian Skin Shirt
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Thomas Hariot, A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (Amsterdam, 1590)
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Titian, Portrait of Isabella d'Este (c. 1534-1536)
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Letter to John and Christopher Wordsworth from their father
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 18 May 1899
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Letters from Samuel Bodger
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An unlikely duo
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Topography of the island of Hven
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New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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Drawing of pottery vessels and other items
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Silver "Achaemenid Bowl" (BM)
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Darius' Red Sea Canal Stele
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From Italy to Germany, 1390: the precondition of the print revolution
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Robert Hooke, 'Micrographia' (1665)
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Lunar volvelle
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Queenie No. 5, Vol. VIII
'The Flight of the Vestal Virgins,' Biagio di Antonio Tucci
Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 428)
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Night Encounters