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Арба (Казахстан)
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Topography of the island of Hven
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Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, c. 1490
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Europe c. 1000 AD
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John Rose's (1619-1677) plate
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Thomas McGarry
'Urne-Buriall and The Garden of Cyrus', illustrated by Paul Nash (1932)
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Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 399, folios 18r-22r
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Clone of Icon of Mahatma Gandhi
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III.4 The Three Higher Faculties: Medicine, Law, and Theology
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Reimagination
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Albrecht Dürer, Stag beetle, 1505
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Mappa Mundi
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Astronomical table clock
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The Geography of Claudius Ptolemy
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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II.6 Academic hierarchies
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Drawing of classical tombstones
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Thomas Hariot, A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (Amsterdam, 1590)
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Mongol Empire in 1290
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Church at Tornio
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The Oxford Crown