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Cabinet - Sources

Bill of account from the Hudson’s Bay Company to Edward Burnett Tylor, 9 November 1900
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Ismail al-Jazari's Elephant clock, ca 1200
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Queenie Vol. VIII, No. 5
Antiquarianism in the Aegean
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 428)
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Jacopo Antonio Marcello Presents the Manuscript of Strabo to Rene d'Anjou (1459)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 114)
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Anthony Wood (1632-1695) and Postmaster's Hall
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Marsilio Ficino, De amore
Saami mother and child
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Galileo's first telescopes, 1609-10
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Anatomy theatre as museum
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Portolan chart of Jorge de Aguiar (1492)
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Great steel quadrant, inscribed in a square, also of steel, and revolving in azimuth
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Ordering plants
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Johann Cogler, Lutheran Sacrament of the Altar (1558)
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President Nixon
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Introduction
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 28 August 1902
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3. Gunpowder
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Elias Ashmole
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Map of Median Empire (c. 600 BC)
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The maps of Mao Yuanyi (c. 1621)
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