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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘Remarks on Totemism...’ (1899)
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Prague, 1584: Celestial globe clock
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Terracotta 'Persian rider' from Al Mina (3D)
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 1
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Drawing of Johanninpoika Marataja
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Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus
Image for Typical folio of specimens from Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus, mostly labelled in the hand of Jacob Bobart the Younger.
Банка с курдючным жиром (Казахстан)
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Drawing of a mountain
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Коллекция почтовых марок «Народы СССР» (Центральная Азия)
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Gerhard Mercator’s world map of 1569
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Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
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Караганда (Казахстан)
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Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town (1666-1679)
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BSH19: Fragment of silver sheet, from the Black Sea hoard
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The Alexander Mosaic.
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 248)
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Columbian exchanges
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1979 offer letter
Islamic Alchemy: A Primer
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Silver and gold phiale from the Lydian Treasure
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Convocation House, 1634-7
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David Loggan’s ‘Hortus Botanicus' (1675)
Image for Print entitled ‘Hortus Botanicus The Physick Garden in Oxon’ from David Loggan (1675) Oxonia illustrata, sive Omnium celeberrimae istius universitatis collegiorum, aularum, bibliothecae Bodleianae, scholarum publicarum, Theatri Sheldoniani; nec non urbis
Explore the Display Case
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Modelling the movements of the heavens
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