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Cabinet - Sources

The earliest book printed with movable type (1377)
Gorytus-tip from Deve Hüyük (BM)
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7. Distillation
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The mural, or Tychonian, quadrant
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The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole reproduced in E. B. Tylor’s article, ‘Note on the Haida Totem-Post...’
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Studiolo of Francesco I: A Renaissance Worldview
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Charter of Queen Philippa (1347)
Cotton scale (Tajikistan)
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 42r
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Joris Hoefnagel, Insects, c. 1590-1600
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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘On Two British Columbian House-Posts...’ (1899)
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BSH6: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class A”), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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Корона "Тилля Каш" (Кыргызстан)
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Drawing of flax being prepared
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Zebra print bikini
Рисовые поля (Казахстан/Кыргызстан)
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Browne's Collection: a 'Cabinet of Rarities'
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 5, 1915
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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JH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment.
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Martin Behaim's globe, 1492
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Letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Henry Balfour, 21 November 1901
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The Cost of Books and the Cost of Living
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