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Pierre Belon, 'De aquatilibus, Libri duo' (1553)
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Jaca Bastion Fort, Spain
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Saami mother and child
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Siege of Constantinople (1453)
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Inscription (Uzbekistan)
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Paper in Chinese folk culture
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Albrecht Dürer, Rhinoceros, 1515
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Глиняная свистулька (Узбекистан и Таджикистан)
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Hemispherical sundial
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Russian bread seller
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg, ca 1585
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The four treasures of the study: ink, inkstone, brush, and paper
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Baked potato
Roberto Valturio, De re militari (1472)
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Sundials in Oxford today
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Javelin head/arrowhead from Deve Hüyük
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Письма солдата (Казахстан)
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Verses in praise of Tycho Brahe by Rudolph Caukerchius, fols. 44v-45r.
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Bodleian, MS e. Mus. 19, fol. 165v
'Like a bundle of thin laths'
Saxon women
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V.1 ‘Humanism’: an educational curriculum
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Sextans Astronomicus Trigonicus
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Traditional Chinese papermaking today
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