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Cabinet - Sources

Buff Ware Rhyton from Deve Hüyük
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 18 May 1899
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Luis de Camoens, The Lusiad (London, 1655)
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Multiple ivory balls
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Winchester College in the 17th Century
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BSH9: Silver stater of King Onasi-, Paphos (Cyprus), probably c. 450-420 BC.
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‘Finnish household’
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Clone of The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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‘Mysterious Sepulchres, Podove’
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Anaphoric water clock, ca 50 BCE
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17. Polishing weapons
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Richard Verstegan, Theatrum Crudelitatem Haereticorum Nostri Temporis (1587)
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Mould
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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 2
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Joris Hoefnagel, Insects, c. 1590-1600
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II.4 'Privilegium scholasticum': the jurisdiction of the Chancellor's Court
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"Achaemenid Bowl" from Deve Hüyük (B)
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William Wordsworth, The Prelude (London, 1850)
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Anatomical theatres: Padua, 1594
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Polish Prayer Book (Kazakhstan)
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Quadrant, England, brass (17th century)
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New plants, new medicines: tobacco
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