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The spread of printing in Europe, 1455-1500
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Hooke's microscope, 1665
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Suzan Bushnaq’s Artwork (Uzbekistan)
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Joris Hoefnagel, Insects, c. 1590-1600
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Depictions of the Council of Trent
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Divinity School, 1427-83
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Colleges
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Reformers
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Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Basel, 1542)
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T25: Gold double-daric, “King with bow and spear”. Carradice Type 3.
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Russian servant
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Tower of the Five Orders, 1613-24
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Bronze phiale from Deve Hüyük
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The 1491 First Edition of Dante's Lyric Poetry
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Two kingfishers
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Spain and Portugal Demarcation Lines
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The uses of the telescope, 1609-10
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Arts End, 1610-12
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Statue of Queen Philippa (3D)
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‘Latin Maiden of Tešanj’
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Automata
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Soviet Piala (Uzbekistan)
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Stele of Xerxes from the Hierothesion of Antiochus I.
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 3
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