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Descartes' Discourse (1637)
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university
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Plaque with note
Chinese Alchemy
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New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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T32: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the satrap Mazakes, (?) 331-323 BC (or earlier).
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University of Helmstedt
Botanical gardens outside Italy
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Family of Sigismund I Jagiellon, c. 1565
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Albrecht Dürer, Erasmus of Rotterdam (1526)
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Lithograph of a Swedish man and woman
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Clone of An Orthopaedic Stretcher from the Dresden Kunstkammer
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Philip II of Spain by Titian (1549-1550)
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Russian women
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VI.5 Early milestones: Reformation disputations
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Lithograph of Lycksele
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Celestial globe clock, Augsburg, 1584
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Islamic Alchemy: A Primer
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Raphael, Drapery study (c. 1508)
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Verses to Tycho Brahe by Oliger Rosenkrantz
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10,000 rouble Banknote of the Turkestan Soviet Republic (1920)
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Sources: nature, reason, experience, and tradition
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David Teniers the Younger, The Alchemist (1643/45)
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Ghirlandaio, Confirmation of the Franciscan Rule (1485)
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