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Cabinet - Sources

Another azimuth quadrant of brass
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 18 May 1899
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Dodo (Raphus cucullatus)
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John Parkinson's 'Theatrum botanicum' (1640)
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Saxon woman
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Russian woman
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Sundials in antiquity
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Examination Papers (1978)
Свидетельство репрессий (Кыргызстан)
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The arts: liberal and mechanical
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The four treasures of the study: ink, inkstone, brush, and paper
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Cap Badge
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", May 5 1915
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Soviet Hovli: The standardized single-family house (Uzbekistan)
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The Houses of Tradescant and Ashmole, South Lambeth
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Suzan Bushnaq’s Artwork (Uzbekistan)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 374)
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Astrolabe table clock
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Early Fellows of the Royal Society
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Cantino world map (1502)
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A fragmented polity
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Drawing to printed image: Blephilia
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Robert Morison (1620-83)
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A view from Tibet
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