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Cabinet - Sources

Cream seller
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Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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Plate to print: carrot
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Armillary Sphere (from 1613)
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Drawing of Lake Hammasjarvi
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Architectural drawing as craft skill
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Clone of The four terrestrial elements
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IV.4 The method for expounding authorities: the lecture
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T1: Silver tetradrachm in the name of Maussollos, satrap of Caria (377-353 BC).
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Timekeeping devices
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III.5 Common hierarchies
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Russian man
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Europe c. 1700
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Drawing of the church at Piteå
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A Scientific Revolution
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'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' manuscript (17th century)
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Cyrus Cylinder from Babylon (BM)
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Saami woman
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 15 November 1900
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Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
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Young Hare, 1502
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Pickled Cucumbers (Kyrgyzstan)
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Itinerary
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The Idiot Boy (vol. 1)
Image for William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, vol 2 (London, 1802)