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Cabinet - Sources

Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘Remarks on Totemism...’ (1899)
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Colantonio, St Jerome in his Study (1444)
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Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, Augsburg, ca 1625
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Casting from life, c. 1560-70
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Folly
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Book Forms: Bound Volumes
Origins of paper
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Anatomy: Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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'Star forts', 'gunpowder fortifications', and the 'trace italienne'
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Опиумная банкнота (Туркестан)
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Cataloguing the Physick Garden (1648 and 1658)
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The New St Peter's Basilica
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Proof, plate editing and print
Image for Proof, published plate and reverse of the copper printing plate of ‘GRAMINA LOLIACEA, DACTYLA, PHALARIS, PANICUM, ijsq[ue] congenera’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 8, Tab. 3). Plants drawn and copper plate engraved
Арба (Казахстан)
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Oxford's Physick Garden
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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Peter Mundy, 1634
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Надгробие Шаршемби уулу Абдыкадыра (Кыргызстан)
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Nereid Monument, early 4th century BC.
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Finnish family
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Ukrainian vyshyvanka shirts in Soviet Pamir (Tajikistan)
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Javelin-head from Deve Hüyük
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Books
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Rene Descartes
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