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Europe c. 1000 AD
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Drawing of Johanninpoika Marataja
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Marshall Refracting Microscope, c. 1715
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Autograph inscription by Sir Henry Wotton to the Bodleian Library, 15 August 1633
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Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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Russian women
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Свидетельство репрессий (Кыргызстан)
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Antiquarianism in the Aegean
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Astronomical sextant for measuring altitudes
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Sundials in antiquity
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Saami boys
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Ancient Egyptian scarab beetles (c. 3100–525 BC)
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New plants from the New World
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Novum Testamentum Graece (Strasbourg, 1524)
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Mercator, World Map (1569)
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Lives of Ashkenazi Jews (Polish Citizens) in Central Asia
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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T4: Silver tetradrachm struck in western Asia Minor (?), c. 341-334 BC.
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Commemorative postage stamps with architecture of Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
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‘Finnish household’
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Свидетельство о рождении Абраши Леваевича Ильясова (Узбекистан)
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Letter from Laurence Dunne
Church at Tornio
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