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Arts End, 1610-12
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Plant to drawing: Geranium and Sideritis
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Models of Saami men
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Дом-музей М.В. Фрунзе, Бишкек (Кыргызстан)
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Archbishop William Laud and the Bishops' War (1639-40)
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Sundials in antiquity
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Francis I Gallery at the Fontainbleau Castle
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Cotton Combines (Tajikistan)
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China under the Song Dynasty
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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IV.5 The method for debating questions: the disputation
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Colleges
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Canonizing the five orders: Sebastiano Serlio, 1537/1611
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Copper engraving
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Gilt silver rhyton (BM)
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Boyle, Hooke and Oxford
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Receipt for a payment to Robert Hanley Hall, 6 December 1900
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A poem written by Christopher Wordsworth at Winchester
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Произведения искусства в семейных интерьерах Ташкента (Узбекистан)
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Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica cover (in depth)
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Серьги «Самовары»
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Newton's prism experiment
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