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Cabinet - Sources

Missions to India
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From Italy to Germany, 1390: the precondition of the print revolution
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Astronomical table clock
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Saami man
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Santucci's sphere, Florence, 1588-93
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Meydancıkkale
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II.1 Where, and what, was the university?
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Printing in Venice
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Merton College, 1608-10
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," March 31 1915
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Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon (England, late 14th century)
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Automaton monk, probably Spanish, ca 1550
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1979 offer letter
Mask of a 'Covid Skull'
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Model of the ‘Santa María’, wood and cloth
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Anatomy theatres
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Clone of Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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The New St Peter's Basilica
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New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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Opera didactica omnia, 1657
T2: Silver tetradrachm in the name of Idrieus, satrap of Caria (351-344 BC).
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Brick-stamp from Ur (BM)
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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