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Cabinet - Sources

Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Archer Baker, 18 January 1901
Image for Tylor Papers, Box 12, Item 24 (H4d)
Russian fruit seller
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Boyle, Hooke and Oxford
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Printing and the economy: the first paper money
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Elephant Automaton Clock, Augsburg, 1600-10
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Clone of 'Tradescant's Orchard' Herbal
Image for Grape from 'Tradescant's Orchard'
Menus - Queenette Club
Early Fellows of the Royal Society
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Automaton monk, probably Spanish, ca 1550
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Russian man
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Памятник Пахтакор-79 (Узбекистан)
Image for The Pakhtakhor-79 Monument (Uzbekistan/Ukraine)
Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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Clone of The four humours of Galenic medicine
Image for The four elements and the four Galenic humours
Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
Image for A Rolling Ball Clock from the Dresden Kunstkammer
11. The Windmill
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Imperial free cities, 1648
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Queenie Vol. VI, No. 1
Night Encounters
Arts End, 1610-12
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An Anthology of Dante’s ‘Minor’ Works (MS Can. Ital. 114)
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Clone of An Orthopaedic Stretcher from the Dresden Kunstkammer
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Cardo
Languages of East Asia
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Gnomonics
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