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Cabinet - Sources

Genoese territories and trade routes
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Polish basket sellers
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university. Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641–1719)
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'Tradescant's Orchard' Herbal
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‘Mysterious Sepulchres, Podove’
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The Slave Trade
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Meydancıkkale
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BSH9: Silver stater of King Onasi-, Paphos (Cyprus), probably c. 450-420 BC.
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Merton College, 1608-10
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BSH12: Silver bar-ingot (cut down).
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10. The Watermill
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Repurposed buildings: houses, residences, palaces
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JH1: Silver stater of Messana (Sicily), c. 488–481 BC.
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Ocelot skull
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Carlo Plato, Armillary Sphere (1588)
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The Cost of Books and the Cost of Living
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Iffley Road Annex – Cardo Building
Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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Clone of New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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Santucci's sphere, Florence, 1588-93
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V.2 The 'studia humanitatis': what was at stake?
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A Renaissance Manuscript (MS Can. Ital. 101)
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Cylinder seal with royal hero and Bes figure
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Key innovation: the escapement
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