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16. Terrestrial longitude
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Johannes Kepler, 'Harmonices Mundi' (1619)
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T24: Gold daric, “King with bow and spear”, Carradice Type 3.
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Xerxes and the Persians in "300".
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Emblem 'Am I not a Man and a Brother'?
Missions to Africa
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Wellcome MS 290, fol. 52v
'Star forts', 'gunpowder fortifications', and the 'trace italienne'
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The Gutenberg Bible
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5. Mechanical clock
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‘Wanderers’ and the problem of retrograde motion
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Philip Stephens and William Browne's 'Catalogus Horti Botanici Oxoniensis' (1658)
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Drawing of a Saami cradle
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Опиумная банкнота (Туркестан)
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Joseph Du Chesne (Quercetanus) (1546-1609)
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Rhinoceros horn cup, Prague 1611
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Looking to the future
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Russian peasant
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Follower of David Teniers the Younger, Alchemist in his Laboratory (early 18th century)
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Papal Coin, John XXII
Wellcome MS 49, folios 35v-37v
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Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
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Excavated Sarcophagus of Roman Girl, 1485
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T32: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the satrap Mazakes, (?) 331-323 BC (or earlier).
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