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The First 20 Years, 1450-1470: Earliest specimens in print
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Models of Saami women
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Lithograph of a Saami market
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 28 1915
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Harvey's Teacher in Padua: Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente (1537–1619)
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New plants, new medicines
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The Holy Roman Empire
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna with Four Saints (1505)
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Marsilio Ficino, De amore
Letter from Archer Baker to Edward Burnett Tylor, 17 January 1901
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Saami cradle
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From decoration to illustration
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Kurt (Kurut)
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19. Copper engraving
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Rudolf II by Hans von Aachen, 1606/8
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Robert Hooke, 'Micrographia' (1665)
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Wire-drawing bench, Nuremberg, before 1565
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The mariner's astrolabe: derivation and usage
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Clone of Pietro Perugino, The Delivery of Keys to St Peter (1481-1482)
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Russian man
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The Decrees of the Council of Trent
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