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II.1 Where, and what, is the university?
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Armillae aliae AEquatoriae
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New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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Polish man smoking a pipe
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Design of Stjerneborg
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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T5: Gold stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Saami group
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Drawing of a woman
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The surrender of Oxford, May-June 1646
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Saami cradle
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Stradanus, Distillation (Nova Reperta)
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A fragmented polity
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Clone of Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Oxford's Physick Garden
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Marshall Refracting Microscope, c. 1715
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 210, fol. 9r
Ptolemy World Map, 1540
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‘Croat Woman in the Agram Market’
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Nautilus Cup with Eagle Claw (1526-1575)
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (glass negative)
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Drawing of an Alchemical House from Libavius (1606)
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Russian peasant
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Hven, 1576-97: Tycho Brahe's observatory
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