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Дом-музей М.В. Фрунзе, Бишкек (Кыргызстан)
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Karaburun Tumulus II, early 5th century BC.
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Petrarch’s Canzoniere and Triumphs with one sonnet attributed to Dante (MS Can. Ital. 70)
Hooke's microscope, 1665
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Studiolo of Francesco I: The Fire Wall
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BSH6: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class A”), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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A poem written by Christopher Wordsworth at Winchester
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Michael Maier, Symbola aureae mensae, 1617
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Drawing of the interior of a Finnish house
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Martin Behaim's globe, 1492
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Drawing of Johanninpoika Marataja
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Heating Source: Hearth
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 200)
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Drawing of a camp-fire
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Lithograph of Saami fishermen
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Fanny's Chickens
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Муйнакский рыбоконсервный комбинат (Узбекистан)
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Transcription: "Women and Land."
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JH2: Silver tetradrachm of Akanthos (Chalcidice), fragment, c. 470 BC.
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The Savilian Professors' Houses, 1672-1854, and Halley's Observatory
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Russian peasant
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Hierarchies
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Wooden Shield
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Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, MS C 54, fol. 41v