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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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The Houses of Tradescant and Ashmole, South Lambeth
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Andrea Pozzo, Ceiling of Sant'Ignazio Church, Rome (1685)
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Zodiac Man
Turkmen earrings gulak-halka (Turkmenistan)
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Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, folios 260r-261v
The Cotton Symbol (Uzbekistan)
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 391(2), fol. 3r
Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, ca 1620
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Почтовые марки с изображениями архитектурных памятников Самарканда (Узбекистан)
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Statue of Buddha
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Childrens' Socks (Kazakhstan)
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The Pakhtakhor-79 Monument (Uzbekistan/Ukraine)
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Russian bread seller
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Zuccaro, Doorway to Palazzo Zuccari (1590)
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Virgil, Eclogues (Aldus Manutius, 1501)
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The printing process
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Boucher, The Invention of Drawing (18th century)
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T4: Silver tetradrachm struck in western Asia Minor (?), c. 341-334 BC.
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Buffalo Bill Cody
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Man
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 40v
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