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Jan van Kessel, the Elder, c. 1650-3.
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Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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Verses in praise of Tycho Brahe by Rudolph Caukerchius, fols. 44v-45r.
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Drawing to printed image: Blephilia
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’, east end of the Court
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Traditional Chinese papermaking today
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Inscription to Cecil Rhodes - King Edward Street
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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V.1 ‘Humanism’: an educational curriculum
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The Oxford syllabus as circulus disciplinarum, 1635
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Adaptation: Early papermaking in Italy, 1264
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Astronomical Clock of Su Song (1020-1101)
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Studiolo of Francesco I: A Renaissance Worldview
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A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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Свидетельство репрессий (Кыргызстан)
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Samovar (RSFSR/Afghanistan, ca.1925)
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Papal Coin, Boniface VIII
Heating Source: Hearth
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Dedication (cont.)
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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘Remarks on Totemism...’ (1899)
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Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione (c.1514-1515)
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 41v
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