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Globe cup, Zurich c. 1580–90
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Oxford as a Window on Seventeenth-Century Science
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Ecclesiastical territories: the bishop of Würzburg as a reforming prince, 1573-1617
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Clone of New plants from the New World
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Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Basel, 1542)
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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The Pakhtakhor-79 Monument (Uzbekistan/Ukraine)
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Execution of Levellers, Gloucester Green, 1649
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Dedication to Rudolf II
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna and Child (1488)
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The spread of printing in Europe, 1455-1500
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Abyssinian roll of parchment
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Vitruvius on architecture
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Exhibition case
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Drawing of a lake
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The end of the Hundred Years' War, 1453
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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 3
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 210, fol. 9r
Conical dial
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Japanese 'Inro' Watch
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Medieval Arabic cartography, 1154 CE: sophisticated representation of an expanding world
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 28 1915
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Drawing of a quern
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My grandmother’s jewellery
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