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Vase made of artillery shell
Columbus's lucky mistake: the oldest surviving terrestrial globe, 1492
Polish basket sellers
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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T22: Silver 1/6 siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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Firearms: the earliest European image, 1326-7
Stamp Seal Pendant from the Lydian Treasure
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Drawing of mountains
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Jan Treck, Still Life with a Pewter Jug and Two Porcelain Plates (1649)
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Anaphoric water clock, ca 50 BCE
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‘Christian Monuments, Tassorić’ / ‘Graveyard at Tassorić’
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Menus - Queenette Club
VI.6 The Reformation as disputation
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Чемодан (Казахстан)
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Houses and totem poles in Masset (print)
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Rhinoceros horn cup, Prague 1611
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Botticelli, The Calumny of Apelles (1496-1497)
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Mercury and Sulphur in Splendor Solis
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Sylva Sylvarum (London, 1627, 1651)
Interior of St Anne's Lutheran Church, Augsburg
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Transcription: "Women and Land."
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Melozzo da Forlì, Sixtus IV Appointing Platina as Prefect of the Vatican Library (1477)
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Mercator, World Map (1569)
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III.4 The Three Higher Faculties: Medicine, Law, and Theology
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