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Philip Stephens and William Browne's 'Catalogus Horti Botanici Oxoniensis' (1658)
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 420-21)
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The growth of the empire, c. 559-500 BC
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Salamander Detail from Francis I Gallery
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I.2. College foundations in Oxford and Cambridge, 1249-1878
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Pilgrimage and the Jubilee
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New-world diseases and treatments
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Inscription of 'Cyrus' at Pasargadae
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Albrecht Dürer, Erasmus of Rotterdam (1526)
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Armillae Zodiacales
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Wellcome MS 49, folios 35v-37v
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Wrought iron bombards, early 15th century
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Арба (Казахстан)
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Arcus Bipartitus
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Henry Power, 'Experimental philosophy, in three books' (1664)
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Rudolf II by Hans von Aachen, 1606/8
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Ceramic vessels, terrapin whistle and greenstone amulets, the Bay Islands, Cocal Period (1000–1530 AD)
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Celestial globe clock, Augsburg, 1584
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‘Mount Bielastica’
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Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (glass negative)
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Musaeum Tradescantianum, 1656
T32: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the satrap Mazakes, (?) 331-323 BC (or earlier).
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Saxon urn
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