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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (glass negative)
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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The Pakhtakhor-79 Monument (Uzbekistan/Ukraine)
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Перевод Дюшена (Таджикистан)
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Курт (Kaзахстан)
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Silver phiale with inscription of Artaxerxes I (BM)
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An Orthopaedic Stretcher, ca 1548-85
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Astrolabe table clock
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Clone of The Rise of Renaissance Botany
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 222)
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Cyrus Cylinder from Babylon (BM)
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Gunpowder weapons in 15th-century Korea
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John Gerard's 'The herball' (1633)
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T18: Silver siglos, “King half-length” Carradice Type 1.
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A Renaissance Manuscript (MS Can. Ital. 101)
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Boyle, Hooke and Oxford
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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna and Child (1488)
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Pope as Antichrist
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Parmigianino, Madonna of the Long Neck (1534-1540)
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Saami buildings on Lake Suolajarvi
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A Poetic Anthology from the Veneto (MS Can. Ital. 81)
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