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The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
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The four humours of Galenic medicine
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3. Gunpowder
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The reception of De motu cordis
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Musaeum Tradescantianum, 1656
Examination Papers (1975-6)
Karaburun Tumulus II, early 5th century BC.
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Надпись «Ленинград-Ташкенту» (Узбекистан)
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Thomas Browne, 'Posthumous works' (1712)
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Plaque with note
Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 41v
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Saami couple
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Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Basel, 1542)
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Five sculptural fragments from Persepolis
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Domenichino, Triumphal Arch (c. 1609)
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The key to miniaturisation: the Fusee, early 15th century
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Cream seller
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Xylography before typography, 1423 and after
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Central Oxford in 1643
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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Ivalo valley
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Johanninpoika Marataja
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T28: Silver sixteenth-shekel, struck at Sidon in the name of the satrap Mazaios, 336/5 BC.
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