Cabinet - Sources

Notes for an article on ‘totemism’ by Edward Burnett Tylor
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The Little Blue Book
Drawing of the church at Piteå
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Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
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BSH2: Silver octadrachm of the Bisaltai (Thrace), fragment, c. 465 BC.
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Private Lives
Quadrans Vetus
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III.2 Grammar as key to the tower of learning
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Hemispherical bowl from Deve Hüyük
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Terracotta 'Persian rider' from Al Mina (3D)
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Prague, 1584: Celestial globe clock
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Rudolf II by Hans von Aachen, 1606/8
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Anatomy theatres
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Portolan chart of Jorge de Aguiar (1492)
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From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Enquiry about a missing soldier
The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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The earliest book printed with movable type (1377)
Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 254)
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Cap Badge
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Queenie
Epilogue: 1470 and after