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A map of the spread of printing in Europe
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Armillary Sphere
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Ghirlandaio, Confirmation of the Franciscan Rule (1485)
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Portable Sundials
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Proscholium and its facade, 1610-12
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Cells
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Plate to print: carrot
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BSH9: Silver stater of King Onasi-, Paphos (Cyprus), probably c. 450-420 BC.
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Дом-музей М.В. Фрунзе, Бишкек (Кыргызстан)
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Raphael, The Marriage of the Virgin (1504)
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T3: Silver didrachm in the name of Pixodaros, satrap of Caria (340-335 BC).
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 248)
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Finding the qibla
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JH9: Silver ingot cut from a rod or bracelet.
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Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
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19. Copper engraving
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Philosophers guiding research
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
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Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Basel, 1542)
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Spots on the sun, 1612-13
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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘Remarks on Totemism...’ (1899)
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Караганда (Казахстан)
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