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Cabinet - Sources

Disorder
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Supplement regarding the subdivision and dioptre of the instruments
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Studiolo of Francesco I: The Fire Wall
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Lateral Wall Sulci Model
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Ancient Egyptian scarab beetles (c. 3100–525 BC)
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Types
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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘Remarks on Totemism...’ (1899)
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Quentin Metsys, Diptych of Erasmus of Rotterdam and Pieter Gilles (c. 1517)
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Val Wyatt
The Medieval Worldview
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Portable Sundials
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Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Archer Baker, 18 January 1901
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Map of the New World, 1544
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Five sculptural fragments from Persepolis
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Translocation: the transfer of papermaking to Europe
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"Harpy" Tomb, c. 480 BC
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Polish man smoking a pipe
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Timeline of voyages
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BSH6: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class A”), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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Mathematical model (from 1620)
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Felice Feliciano, Alphabetum Romanum
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Grandmother's spindle (Kyrgyzstan)
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II.1 Where, and what, was the university?
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