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Astronomical tower clocks, ca 1380-1588
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Sunday best or bound for China?
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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 374)
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Sphaera civitatis
Inflow water clock
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An Ethiopian mahdar
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T2: Silver tetradrachm in the name of Idrieus, satrap of Caria (351-344 BC).
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna and Child (1488)
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Plan of Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
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August of Saxony by Lucas Cranach jr., 1572
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Anatomy: Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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​Boats on the Torne river
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Naming plants
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Lithograph of Saami items
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Drawing of a graveyard
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French invasion of Italy, 1494
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Alchemy, the Four Elements, and the Tria Prima
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The printing process
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A chemise binding
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Rubens, Apotheosis of James I (1634)
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Robert Fludd's Alchemical Philosophy and Medicine
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Dutch Delft Militiamen, 1606-1674
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Natural philosophy and medicine: the Schools Quadrangle
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