Cabinet - Sources

The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
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The Victoria Cross
Tomb of Sharshembii Uulu Abdykadyr (Kyrgyzstan)
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Lantern clock with pyramid stand (c. 1700)
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Baked potato
Letter from Archer Baker to Edward Burnett Tylor, 17 January 1901
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Humanist botany: the case of Dioscorides
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The first map of 'America': the Waldseemüller map, 1507
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Boucher, The Invention of Drawing (18th century)
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Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Archer Baker, 18 January 1901
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An Ethiopian mahdar
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Small quadrant of gilt brass
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'Palissy Ware' Dish
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Ivalo valley
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Popes
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Ordering plants
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BSH8: Silver stater of Soloi (Cilicia), c. 440–420 BC.
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking north-east across the Court
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T14: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the general Pharnabazos, c. 380-373 BC.
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Translation of Duchêne (Tajikistan)
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The growth of the empire, c. 559-500 BC
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‘Christian Gravestone’
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Jan Treck, Still Life with a Pewter Jug and Two Porcelain Plates (1649)
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The Savilian Professors' Houses, 1672-1854, and Halley's Observatory
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