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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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Daniel Sennert (1572-1637)
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Russian peasant
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Vase made of artillery shell
T26: Silver dishekel, struck at Sidon in the name of Tennes, c. 354-348 BC.
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Guercino, Allegory of Painting (c. 1618)
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Carta Pisana, ca 1275-1300
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Clone of The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Drawing of classical tombstones
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Nabonidus Chronicle (BM)
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Refurbishing Duke Humphrey's, 1598-1602
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The Savilian Professors' Houses, 1672-1854, and Halley's Observatory
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Russian servant
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Theophrastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus (1493-1541)
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Venetian territories and trade routes
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Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
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David Loggan (1634–1692)
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Reindeer
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The Drake Chair (from 1662)
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Innovation and Printing
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The first permanent anatomical theatre: Padua, 1594
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II.1 Where, and what, was the university?
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Saami cradle
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Galileo's most decisive telescopic observation: the phases of Venus, 1610-23
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