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Cabinet - Sources

Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Archer Baker, 18 January 1901
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V.4 Rhetoric: the art of persuasion
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Resettlement Registration Application (Tajikistan)
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 392-3)
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Town and gown: Authentica habita and the Privilegium scholasticum
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone’, manuscript on paper, 1800
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ABC Books for Bukharan Jews (Central Asia)
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Чемодан (Казахстан)
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V.3 Grammar: a window on the ancient world
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Серьги «Самовары»
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 374)
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Columbian exchanges
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Batells
Philosophical Transactions, no. 178 (1685)
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Sources: nature, reason, experience, and tradition
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Transcription: "Women and Land."
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A poem written by Christopher Wordsworth at Winchester
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The Waldseemüller map, 1507
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Revolving azimuth quadrant
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Map of religious divisions in the Swiss Confederation (1536)
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Francis Bacon at 17 years of age, 1578
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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William Holman Hunt, Study of four Eastern figures (c. 1870)
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