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Cabinet - Sources

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 391(2), fol. 3r
New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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Scales Narrative
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Drawing of an Alchemical House from Libavius (1606)
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Introduction
BSH16: Half of silver penannular bracelet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Rice fields (Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan)
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BSH3: Silver tetradrachm of Akanthos (Chalcidice), fragment, c. 470 BC.
Image for BSH3: Silver tetradrachm of Akanthos (Chalcidice), fragment, c. 470 BC. Kraay and Moorey 1981, no.3 (SNG Ashmolean III 2201). [Obverse]
Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Clone of New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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Accessing unchained books
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Clone of The Rise of Renaissance Botany
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T24: Gold daric, “King with bow and spear”, Carradice Type 3.
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Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 939 (section 5, verso)
Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘Remarks on Totemism...’ (1899)
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Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, Augsburg, ca 1625
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, April 21, 1915
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Follower of David Teniers the Younger, Alchemist in his Laboratory (early 18th century)
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Russian fruit seller
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Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus
Image for Typical folio of specimens from Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus, mostly labelled in the hand of Jacob Bobart the Younger.
Genoese territories and trade routes
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Flea
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Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Finnish boy
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