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Cabinet - Sources

Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 28 August 1902
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 15 February 1902
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Morison's 'Sciagraphia'
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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528)
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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Map of the New World, 1544
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Terrestrial longitude
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Japanese pillar clock
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The right man for the job
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Winchester College in the 17th Century
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Letter from Joseph Derbyshire
Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach, 1710
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 5, fol. 34v
Saxon woman
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Samovar (RSFSR/Afghanistan, ca.1925)
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David Loggan (1634–1692)
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Pierre Belon, 'De aquatilibus, Libri duo' (1553)
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Drawing of a Turkish café
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Cells
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The transmission of knowledge: From manuscript to print
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Origins of paper
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Synopsis of the statutes of the University of Oxford in broadsheet form (1635)
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Drawing to printed image: Blephilia
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