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Modelling the movements of the heavens
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Polish basket sellers
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Tomb of Cyrus at Pasargadae
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Polish man
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Johann Cogler, Lutheran Sacrament of the Altar (1558)
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William Lisle Bowles, Fourteen sonnets (Bath, 1789)
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‘Roman and Croatian Pottery’
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 114)
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Turkmen earrings gulak-halka (Turkmenistan)
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Night Encounters
T9: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Perikles of Limyra, c. 390-360 BC.
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BSH6: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class A”), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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Drawing of flax being prepared
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The Medieval Worldview
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The Astronomical Clock of Richard of Wallingford (d. 1336)
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Worked in precious threads
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Drawing of Doboj fortress
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Saami mother and child
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Speculum academicum (1638): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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Anthony Wood (1632-1695) and Postmaster's Hall
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Inscriptions on ritual vessels, 11th century BCE
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Saxon urn
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 13002, folios 2v-3r
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The astrolabe
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