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Cabinet - Sources

Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 15 February 1902
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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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Title page to part one: Organographia
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Travel authorisation by Arshama
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Printed model to printed image: Mimosa
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De aliis quibusdam Instrumentis nostris
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Homesteading in Canada
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Tubeteika (Uzbekistan)
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Architectural drawing as craft skill
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Clock with Automated Procession of Bacchus, ca 1580
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Маца (Казахстан)
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Drawing of the interior of a Finnish house
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Dala Shiypon in Jarqurgon District (Surkhandaryo Viloyat, Uzbekistan)
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The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
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Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society, 1667
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Sphaera civitatis
T5: Gold stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Agnus Dei
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Drawing of Johanninpoika Marataja
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Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Ulm, 1482)
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Instruments: preserved in the Museo Galileo
Carried into exile
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14. Oil paint
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Immortal fame
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