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Rene Descartes
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Introduction and Contents
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BSH19: Fragment of silver sheet, from the Black Sea hoard
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12. Olive oil
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T32: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the satrap Mazakes, (?) 331-323 BC (or earlier).
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Dombra of Dina Nurpeisova (Kazakhstan)
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Central Oxford in 1643
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Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Clone of Jardin des Plantes in Paris (1636)
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Astronomical Clock of Su Song (1020-1101)
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Comenius's Praeludia, 1637
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Paper flowers
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Houses and totem poles in Masset (print)
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Поэтический памятник советского постмодернизма (Таджикистан)
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Goblet made from a bezoar, Prague c. 1600
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Cataloguing the Physick Garden (1648 and 1658)
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Ocelot skull
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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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Introduction
Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, April 21, 1915
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VI.4 The founding event: a university disputation
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Writing Systems
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