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Prague, 1584: Celestial globe clock
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The 1727 Reprint of the Giuntina
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A view from Tibet
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Mosaic (Kazakhstan)
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Bobart the Younger’s Hortus Siccus
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Lithograph of church at Umeå
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Supplement regarding the subdivision and dioptre of the instruments, fol. 44r
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Pietro Perugino, The Delivery of Keys to St Peter (1481-1482)
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Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531)
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Scales Narrative
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Balagan (Central Asia)
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Transcription: "Mother's Holiday."
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Revolving azimuth quadrant
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Examination Papers (1975-6)
Kurt (Kurut)
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Paper in Chinese folk culture
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Architecture: The Five Orders
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Gunpowder weapons in 15th-century Korea
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Jacopo Pontormo, The Deposition from the Cross (1525-1528)
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Drawing of Mount Bjelašnica
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 15 November 1900
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Sphaera civitatis
Writing For and By Women
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