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Clay Whistle (Tajikistan and Uzbekistan)
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Vannuccio Biringuccio, Pirotechnia (1540)
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Richard Verstegan, Theatrum Crudelitatem Haereticorum Nostri Temporis (1587)
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Saami buildings on Lake Suolajarvi
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Missions to China
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The first superintendent: Jacob Bobart the Elder (c. 1599-1680)
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Queenie Vol. VIII, No. 3
T27: Silver dishekel, struck at Sidon in the name of the satrap Mazaios, 336/5 BC.
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking south-east across the Court
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Sewing machine
Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677)
Gilt silver rhyton (BM)
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Drawing of pottery vessels
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Town and gown: Authentica habita and the Privilegium scholasticum
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Inflow water clock
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Oxford's defences, 1648
Saami woman
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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T25: Gold double-daric, “King with bow and spear”. Carradice Type 3.
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Xerxes and the Persians in "300".
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The Apadana at Persepolis
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Clone of Anatomy: a manual art
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Design of the main buildings of Uraniborg
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Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
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