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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Behistun relief and inscription
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Wellcome MS 290, fol. 52v
John Gerard's 'The herball' (1633)
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Cantino world map (1502)
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Dutch Trade Routes
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Drawing of trees
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The Pakhtakhor-79 Monument (Uzbekistan/Ukraine)
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The three perfections: calligraphy
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Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528)
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T25: Gold double-daric, “King with bow and spear”. Carradice Type 3.
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Transcription: "Women and Land."
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The moons of Jupiter
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Saami boys
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Clone of 'Tradescant's Orchard' Herbal
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Adaptation: Early papermaking in Italy, 1264
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Russian mother with children
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Rembrandt, Self portrait
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From the Bobarts' Herbaria to Morison's Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis (1699)
Boucher, The Invention of Drawing (18th century)
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Martin Behaim's globe, 1492
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From humanist manuscripts to italic pocketbooks: the Aldine press, 1501
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Queenie No. 5, Vol. VIII