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Cabinet - Sources

Hooke's microscope
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Telegrams
Flea
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 28 1915
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10. The Watermill
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French invasion of Italy, 1494
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Bird Rattle (3D)
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Nabonidus Chronicle (BM)
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The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
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Soviet Piala (Uzbekistan)
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Canonizing the five orders: Sebastiano Serlio, 1537/1611
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Polish Prayer Book (Kazakhstan)
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Saami cradle
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Official letters
Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 15 February 1902
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Title page
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Alchemical Laboratory
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The right man for the job
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"Achaemenid Bowl" from Deve Hüyük (A)
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II.6 Academic hierarchies
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Cinnamon, peppercorns, nutmeg and cloves
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Instruments: preserved in the Museo Galileo