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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg, ca 1585
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Drawing of a Bulgarian settlement
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Innumerable new stars
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Queen Elizabeth I Feeding the Dutch Cow
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Browne's Collection: a 'Cabinet of Rarities'
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 3
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‘Bosnian Belle’
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3. Gunpowder
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Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, c. 1490
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens" May 26 1915
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Vatican Library, MS Pal.lat. 1709, fol. 44r
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Soldier portraits
Copper engraving
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Alchemy, the Four Elements, and the Tria Prima
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Map of Assyrian Empire (824 BC and 671 BC)
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‘Bulgarian Profile’
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Mosaic (Kazakhstan)
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Cabinet for August of Brunswick-Lüneburg, c. 1630
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Official letters
Sextans Chalibeus
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Oriel
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The microcosm: The four humours of Galenic medicine
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The mariner's astrolabe and Portuguese exploration
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