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Ribeiro planisphere of 1529
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Lithograph of Saami items
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Descartes' Discourse (1637)
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The phases of Venus, 1610-23
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Europe c. 1700
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 210, fol. 9r
Friar Bacon's Study and Folly Bridge
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Plate to print: process
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Польский молитвенник (Казахстан)
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Khaki University Structure
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 19, 1915
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Buffalo Bill Cody
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10. The Watermill
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Riemann surface
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The five orders as sets of mathematical proportions: Hans Blum, 1550
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Clone of Anatomy: a manual art
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The Astrolabe
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 18 May 1899
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Свидетельство о рождении (Казахстан)
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Andrea Palladio, Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice (1566-1610)
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Melozzo da Forlì, Sixtus IV Appointing Platina as Prefect of the Vatican Library (1477)
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Anatomical Theatres
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Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole reproduced in E. B. Tylor’s article, ‘Note on the Haida Totem-Post...’
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Missions to India
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