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Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon (England, late 14th century)
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Visualizing 'The Movement of the Heart and the Blood in Living Creatures' (1628)
Harvey de motu cordis
Proof, plate editing and print
Image for Proof, published plate and reverse of the copper printing plate of ‘GRAMINA LOLIACEA, DACTYLA, PHALARIS, PANICUM, ijsq[ue] congenera’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 8, Tab. 3). Plants drawn and copper plate engraved
Article featuring Helen Carmichael
Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 382)
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Fanny's Scales
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Raphael, School of Athens (1509-1510)
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Караганда (Казахстан)
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Maps as symbols of power: Gallery of Maps, Vatican Palace, 1580-83
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The Oxford Crown
Quentin Metsys, Diptych of Erasmus of Rotterdam and Pieter Gilles (c. 1517)
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JH10-JH17: Earrings from the Jordan hoard
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The Waldseemüller map, 1507
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Свидетельство о рождении Абраши Леваевича Ильясова (Узбекистан)
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Book Forms: Handscrolls
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Zodiac Man
Russian wet nurse
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Sphaera civitatis
Samuel Puchas, Purchas his pilgrimes, vol. 3 (London, 1625)
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Stupidity
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Clone of Medieval gardens
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John Gerard's 'The herball' (1633)
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Bodleian Library, MS Canon. Ital. 258, fol. 32r
Drawing of a Bulgarian settlement
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