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Cabinet - Sources

Queenie
Wellcome MS 49, folios 35v-37v
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The Right to Homestead
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Alexander VII, by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (after 1650)
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Milk Guard [ and Milk ] (Kazakhstan)
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university
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Philosophical Transactions, no. 178 (1685)
Image for ‘An Explanation of the Cutts of two Porphyry Pillars in Aegypt’, in Philosophical Transactions, no. 178 (London, December 1685)
15. Eyeglasses
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Headless Virgin and Child statue
Medieval Arabic cartography, 1154 CE: sophisticated representation of an expanding world
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, ff. 42v - 43r
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Rhodes House, South Parks Road
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Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Archer Baker, 18 January 1901
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Oriel
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II.2 'Universitas': the original meaning of the term
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Cotton Combines (Tajikistan)
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Buff Ware Rhyton from Deve Hüyük
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A Commedia with a Lyric Collection (MS Can. Ital. 111)
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Cylinder seal with royal hero and Bes figure
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2. Magnetic Compass
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Bill of account from the Hudson’s Bay Company to Edward Burnett Tylor, 9 November 1900
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Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon (England, late 14th century)
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16. Terrestrial longitude
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Justus Lipsius (1547-1606)
Image for Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) by Hendrick Goltzius (1587)