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Cabinet - Sources

Arba (Kazakhstan)
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Anaphoric water clock, ca 50 BCE
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Queenie Vol. VIII, No. 2
Lapis Philosophicus
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Descartes's correspondence
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Laocoon and his Sons
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Russian servant
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Tabula Rogeriana
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Rice fields (Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan)
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Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, Augsburg, ca 1625
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Calligraphy
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De Sphera
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Francois Dubois, St Bartolomew's Day Massacre (24 August 1572)
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Sheldonian Ceiling
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‘Bosniac Girl of the Possávina’
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 410-11)
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Letter: "Homesteads for Women."
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Male reproductive system
Adhai-dvipa: Jain diagram of the world
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 28 August 1902
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Man in the Moon
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Drawing of a woman
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Bill of account from the Hudson’s Bay Company to Edward Burnett Tylor, 9 November 1900
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