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Javelin-head from Deve Hüyük
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Key innovation: the escapement
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Bodleian, MS e. Mus. 19, fol. 165v
Male reproductive system
Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644)
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T24: Gold daric, “King with bow and spear”, Carradice Type 3.
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The astrolabe
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Seal of Darius I (BM)
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Night Encounters
Russian basket seller
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Drawing of mountains
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The Bodleian and the King
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Family of Sigismund I Jagiellon, c. 1565
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Queen Elizabeth I Feeding the Dutch Cow
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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘On Two British Columbian House-Posts...’ (1899)
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The parallatic or ruler-instrument
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Portuguese and Spanish Trade Routes
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New plants, new medicines
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Saami bride
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John Parkinson's 'Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris' (1629)
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Family portraits
T18: Silver siglos, “King half-length” Carradice Type 1.
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Drawing of a woman
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