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The four terrestrial elements
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Clay Whistle (Tajikistan and Uzbekistan)
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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Mapping the moon
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 374)
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Wellcome MS 349, fol. 22r
Dresden, 1581: Georg Wecker's polyhedra
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12. Olive oil
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Dante's Canzoniere in Britain
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A satchel for a scholar
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Silver "Achaemenid Bowl" (BM)
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New plants, new medicines
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Headless Virgin and Child statue
5. Mechanical clock
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Printing in Venice
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Proscholium and its facade, 1610-12
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‘Peoples of the USSR’ – Postage Stamp Collection (Central Asia)
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Mausoleum of Hadrian
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 15 February 1902
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Key innovation: the escapement
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Theophrastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus (1493-1541)
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‘Bulgarian Settlement’
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Haida totem pole known as Star House Pole (3-D)
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Astrological tool
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