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III.2 Grammar as key to the tower of learning
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Lantern clock with pyramid stand (c. 1700)
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The five orders as sets of mathematical proportions: Hans Blum, 1550
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Cabinet for Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, 1632
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Displaying ‘kindreds and affinities’
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Saxon woman
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Martin Behaim's globe, 1492
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Clone of The spread of botanical gardens outside Italy
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Robert Boyle
Tail fat glass jar (Kazakhstan)
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Albrecht Dürer, Self-portrait in fur coat, 1500
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Alexander VII, by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (after 1650)
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Firearms: the earliest European image, 1326-7
Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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Andrea Palladio, Villa Barbaro, Maser - Veneto (1554-1558)
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Russian woman
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Jan Mostaert, Landscape with an Episode from the Conquest of America (c. 1535)
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Narrating Dante's Life and Love Through His Lyric Poetry
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Dodo (Raphus cucullatus)
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Medieval European cartography, c. 1280: speculative and symbolic
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JH8: Silver bar-ingot, cut down to size from a larger bar.
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Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Wax profile of William of Wykeham
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