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Cabinet - Sources

Rhinoceros horn cup, Prague 1611
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William Lisle Bowles, Fourteen sonnets (Bath, 1789)
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 15 November 1900
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Cartographic table, Nuremberg, c. 1553
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The earliest book printed with movable type (1377)
Riemann surface
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Фотография Азамата Алтая и Чингиза Айтматова (США-Кыргызстан)
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The moons of Jupiter
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Map of the New World, 1544
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Andrea Palladio, Villa Barbaro, Maser - Veneto (1554-1558)
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Молокосторож [и Молоко] (Казахстан)
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Lithograph of Saami people
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Happy Birthday
Samovar (RSFSR/Afghanistan, ca.1925)
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II.3 'Universitas magistrorum et scholarium’: a self-governing corporation of teachers and students
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Francis Bacon, c. 1618
Danby Gate, Botanical Garden, 1632-3
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‘Old Castle of Doboj’
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Thomas Browne, 'Religio Medici' (1644)
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T16: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the satrap Mazaios, c. 361-333 BC.
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Khaki University Structure
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Title page to part one: Organographia
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Medicinal objects in princely collections
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