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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Concrete Fences (Kyrgyzstan)
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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘On the Totem-Post from the Haida Village of Masset...’ (1899)
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Henry Power, 'Experimental philosophy, in three books' (1664)
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Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Basel, 1542)
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The surrender of Oxford, May-June 1646
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 19 1915
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T26: Silver dishekel, struck at Sidon in the name of Tennes, c. 354-348 BC.
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Wadham College, 1610-13
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Musaeum Calceolarii, 1622
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Columbian exchanges
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Cotton scale (Tajikistan)
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Fanny's Chickens
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Article featuring Helen Carmichael
Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Wrought iron bombards, early 15th century
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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V. Schools Quadrangle
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The mariner's astrolabe and Portuguese exploration
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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Richard Verstegan, Theatrum Crudelitatem Haereticorum Nostri Temporis (1587)
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Accessing unchained books
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Nevada-Semipalatinsk pennant (Kazakhstan)
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‘Turkish Café, Tesanj’
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