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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg, ca 1585
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 3
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Russian tailor’s apprentices
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Wellcome MS 290, fol. 53v
Drawing of classical tombstones
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Japanese pillar clock
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Pietro Perugino, The Delivery of Keys to St Peter (1481-1482)
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Promotional Immigration Literature and Ephemera
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The Moynaq Canned Fish combine (Uzbekistan)
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university
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The world's earliest dated printed book: The Diamond Sutra, 868 CE
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Oxford's Physick Garden, 1621
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Astronomical Clock, Rostock
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Fanny's Scales
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Index of Prohibited Books
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Automata
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Молокосторож [и Молоко] (Казахстан)
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Novum Testamentum Graece (Strasbourg, 1524)
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An anatomical landmark: Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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John Tradescant the Younger with Roger Friend and a Collection of Exotic Shells
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Drawing of a man
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Pietro da Cortona, Ceiling of Palazzo Barberini, Rome (1633-1639)
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3. Gunpowder
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