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Cabinet - Sources

Florence, 1588-93: Santucci's sphere
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Spoon of decorated reindeer antler
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Johann Cogler, Lutheran Sacrament of the Altar (1558)
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Nature
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Drawing of a quern
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Saxon woman
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Cushion starfish
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A box to 'kindle therein any fire or flame'?
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'The Flight of the Vestal Virgins,' Biagio di Antonio Tucci
Double pigeon whistle (3-D)
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'Greco-Persian' gem: Persian with bird
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IV.5 The method for debating questions: the disputation
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Morisonian Herbarium
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Медаль материнства первой степени (Центральная Азия)
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 26, 1915
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The transmission of knowledge: From manuscript to print
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Drawing of the interior of a Finnish house
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Title page to part one: Organographia
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Conical dial
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The Idle Shepherd Boys (vol. 2)
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Balagan (Central Asia)
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David Loggan (1634–1692)
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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘On the Totem-Post from the Haida Village of Masset...’ (1899)
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