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III.4 The Three Higher Faculties: Medicine, Law, and Theology
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Technological innovation, c. 1580
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Inflow water clock
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Description of the various parts of the large main building
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BSH8: Silver stater of Soloi (Cilicia), c. 440–420 BC.
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Saami women
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Christopher Wren's (1632-1723) plate
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An experiment in the Accademia del Cimento
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Seal of Cyrus I
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The First Printed Edition of the Vita Nuova, 1576
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Drawing of Bosnian people
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Behistun relief and inscription
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Excavated Sarcophagus of Roman Girl, 1485
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Advert for soap
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, fol. 259v
Ukrainian vyshyvanka shirts in Soviet Pamir (Tajikistan)
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V. Schools Quadrangle
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A cardboard box for concrete poetry
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Alchemical Laboratory
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South Porch, University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, 1637
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone’, manuscript on paper, 1800
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Birth Certificate: Abrasha Levaevich Il’yasov (Uzbekistan)
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Botanical gardens outside Italy
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