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Europe c. 1000 AD
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John Parkinson's 'Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris' (1629)
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Visitors to the Bodleian
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Thomas Browne, 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' (1672)
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‘Croatian Clothes-shop, Agram’
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Planning the New Basilica
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T23: Silver 1/32 siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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Soviet Hovli: The standardized single-family house (Uzbekistan)
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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Arcus Bipartitus
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Hooke's microscope
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Beyond Mainz: The Diaspora of Printing Shops
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William Gilpin, Observations on the River Wye and Several Parts of South Wales (London, 1789)
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Anatomical Theatres
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The Cotton Symbol (Uzbekistan)
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Helioscope
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 43v
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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The Rise of Renaissance Botany
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (stereograph)
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The earliest book printed with movable type (1377)
Anatomical engravings
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Studiolo of Francesco I de Medici, 1570-75
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Man in the Moon
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