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T30: Silver shekel, struck at Tyre, c. 425-394 BC.
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Justus Lipsius (1547-1606)
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Star Fort of Bourtange, Netherlands (1593)
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Book Forms: Handscrolls
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Piero della Francesca, Flagellation (c.1455–1460)
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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Course description
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Medieval vs Early Modern Fortifications
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Туркменские серьги гулак-халка: память о войне и устойчивые традиции (Туркменистан)
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Cornelis Bega, The Alchemist (1663)
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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Советская пиала (Узбекистан)
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Medieval Arabic cartography, 1154 CE: sophisticated representation of an expanding world
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Dutch Delft Militiamen, 1606-1674
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Quadrans Vetus
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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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18. The astrolabe
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'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' manuscript (17th century)
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Dante's Canzoniere in Britain
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Cartography: the Waldseemüller map, 1507
Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644)
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Mapping the moon
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The celestial sphere: the fifth element the geocentric cosmology
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