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Cabinet - Sources

Notes on ‘totemism’ by Edward Burnett Tylor
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Rice fields (Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan)
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Letter to John and Christopher Wordsworth from their father
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T30: Silver shekel, struck at Tyre, c. 425-394 BC.
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The Moynaq Canned Fish combine (Uzbekistan)
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Russian women
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Fanny's Chickens
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 248)
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Cartography: the Waldseemüller map, 1507
Alexander VII, by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (after 1650)
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Clone of Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica cover (in depth)
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Transcription: "Women and Land."
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Shrunken Glove (3D)
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Francis Bacon, c. 1618
The Right to Homestead
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Hooke's microscope, 1665
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Sundials in antiquity
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Gunpowder Warfare
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Drawing of The Seven Sisters
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'The Flight of the Vestal Virgins,' Biagio di Antonio Tucci
Printing and the economy: the first paper money
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Sundials in 17th-century Oxford
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Cinnamon, peppercorns, nutmeg and cloves
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T1: Silver tetradrachm in the name of Maussollos, satrap of Caria (377-353 BC).
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