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Cabinet - Sources

Origins of coins in the Black Sea Hoard
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War and Peace in Europe, 1598-1650
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Statues of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, Canterbury Quadrangle, St John's College
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The problem of mobility: Mons Meg, 1449-97
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Letters Patent of Edward III (1347)
The four humours
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Albrecht Dürer, Stag beetle, 1505
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Reindeer
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Venetian territories and trade routes
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BSH10: Silver siglos, probably minted at Sardeis. Mid-late 5th century BC.
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Henry Power, 'Experimental philosophy, in three books' (1664)
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Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus
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Finnish couple
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University of Helmstedt
Michelangelo, Last Judgment (1536-1541)
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Outflow water clock, ca 1350 BCE
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Jan Treck, Still Life with a Pewter Jug and Two Porcelain Plates (1649)
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Alchemical Laboratory
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Arrowheads from Deve Hüyük
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Francois Dubois, St Bartolomew's Day Massacre
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Anaphoric water clock, ca 50 BCE
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JH10-JH17: Earrings from the Jordan hoard
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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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The Slave Trade
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