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New plants from the New World
Image for Typical folio of specimens from Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus, mostly labelled in the hand of Jacob Bobart the Younger.
Order in Council (1978)
A New Profession
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university. Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641–1719)
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University of Helmstedt
The four humours
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'Star forts', 'gunpowder fortifications', and the 'trace italienne'
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China under the Song Dynasty
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Colophon, fol. 45v
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T10: Silver stater struck at Tarsos, c. 420-410 BC.
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Sundials
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John Tradescant the Younger with Roger Friend and a Collection of Exotic Shells
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A poetic monument to Soviet post-modernism (Tajikistan)
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Two kingfishers
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An unlikely duo
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Sidereus Nuncius, 1610
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Clone of The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Interior of a Finnish house
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Introduction: New inventions, c. 1600
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Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644)
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Book Forms: Folded Books
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The maps of Mao Yuanyi (c. 1621)
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Theodor de Bry, Oppidum Secota (c. 1590)
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"Homesteads for Women" by Fanny Shepherd.
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