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Ghirlandaio, Confirmation of the Franciscan Rule (1485)
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Revolving azimuth quadrant
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The early modern siege
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Night Encounters
Bodleian, MS Canon. Misc. 559, fol. 2r
Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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Sextans Astronomicus Trigonicus
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Shrapnel paper knife
V.1 ‘Humanism’: an educational curriculum
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Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, Augsburg, ca 1625
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Book Forms: Overview
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A cook in the trenches
The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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BSH6: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class A”), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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Lunar cycle
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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort's (1630-1715) plate
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Конфеты Кара-Кум (Центральная Азия)
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Battle of White Mountain (8 November 1620)
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Johanninpoika Marataja
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Russian man
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Homesteading in Canada
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Islamic calligraphy
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Galileo's first telescopes, 1609-10
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