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The microcosm: The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Studiolo of Francesco I de Medici, 1570-75
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An anatomical landmark: Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Cinnamon, peppercorns, nutmeg and cloves
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Follower of David Teniers the Younger, Alchemist in his Laboratory (early 18th century)
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John Calvin (1509-1564)
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Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’, looking east across the Court
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I.2. College foundations in Oxford and Cambridge, 1249-1878
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The Astrolabe
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Drawing of a Croatian woman
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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The four treasures of the study: ink, inkstone, brush, and paper
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A Miscellany Written in Prison (MS Can. Ital. 50)
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Johann Joachim Winkelmann
Туркменские серьги гулак-халка: память о войне и устойчивые традиции (Туркменистан)
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Recording stories and memories
Val Wyatt
"Achaemenid Bowl" from Deve Hüyük (B)
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Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
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Robert Morison (1620-1683)
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Philology: The Antwerp polyglot, 1568-73
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Kano Naizen, Portuguese Carrack in Nagasaki (late 16th-early 17th century)
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Saami man
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