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Cornelis Bega, The Alchemist (1663)
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The terrestrial sphere: the four terrestrial elements
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17. Polishing weapons
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The key to miniaturisation: the Fusee, early 15th century
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Johanes Stradanus, Nova reperta (1600)
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Martin Luther (1483-1546) by Lucas Cranach the Elder
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Icon of Mahatma Gandhi
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China under the Song Dynasty
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Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon (England, late 14th century)
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I.3. University matriculations in Germany and England, 1400-1810
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Digitising objects
Robert Hooke, 'Micrographia' (1665)
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Ora et labora
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 308)
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Ptolemy World Map, 1482
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John Donne's 1531 Convivio
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Ismail al-Jazari's Elephant clock, ca 1200
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Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’, east end of the Court
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The Geography of Claudius Ptolemy
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Piazza del Popolo (c. 1662-1681)
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'Catalogus Herbarum ex horto Botanico Oxoniensi' (1676)
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Finnish family
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Rene Descartes
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From decoration to illustration
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