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Cabinet - Sources

Displaying ‘kindreds and affinities’
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Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Robert Hanley Hall, 14 December 1899
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Piazza del Popolo (c. 1662-1681)
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Ribeiro planisphere of 1529
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Receipt for a payment to Robert Hanley Hall, 6 December 1900
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Trench Art Shell Case (3D)
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VI.9 Unintended consequences
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John Parkinson's 'Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris' (1629)
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A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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T20: Silver siglos, “King with bow and spear” Carradice Type 3.
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I.3. University matriculations in Germany and England, 1400-1810
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Comparing fruits: carrot family
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The Astrolabe
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BSH19: Fragment of silver sheet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Transcription: "Mrs Shepherd on Poultry."
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Бетонные заборы (Кыргызстан)
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Gunpowder in the Nova reperta
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Inscribed oracle bones, 12th century BCE
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15. Eyeglasses
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Cream seller
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Transcription: "'Our Weddin': A True Saskatchewan Story of Feb, 1916."
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The earliest book printed with movable type (1377)
Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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David Loggan (1634–1692)
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