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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (glass negative)
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Drawing of Lake Hammasjarvi
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Aliud instrumentum simile priori
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Key innovation: the escapement
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V.3 Grammar: a window on the ancient world
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Portrait of John Case
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New plants, new medicines
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Interior of a Finnish house
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Sunday best or bound for China?
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Jan van Kessel, the Elder, c. 1650-3.
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VI.4 The founding event: a university disputation
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Hooke's microscope, 1665
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Quadrans Maximus
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Tail fat glass jar (Kazakhstan)
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Столы (Таджикистан)
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Saxon woman
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The Suitcase (Kazakhstan)
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A cardboard box for concrete poetry
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Two kingfishers
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Milk Guard [ and Milk ] (Kazakhstan)
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T6: Silver stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 15 November 1900
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II.2 'Universitas': the original meaning of the term
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