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Article featuring Helen Carmichael
Instruments: described in the Saggi
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Grandmother's spindle (Kyrgyzstan)
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Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort's (1630-1715) plate
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Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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Globus Magnus Orichalcicus
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Три военные фотографии Усмона Акрамова (Таджикистан)
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Comparing fruits: carrot family
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Orozbakov’s Manas (Kyrgyzstan)
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Models of Saami women
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Finnish man
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Nova reperta: title page
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Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
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Железорудные окатыши и индустриальные моногорода (Казахстан)
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The Rise of Renaissance Botany
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The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Thomas Browne, 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' (1672)
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Bladder fish
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Remedy for women
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Homesteading in Canada
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Al-Idrīsī's world map, 1152
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Saami man
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Seal of Darius I (BM)
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Drawing of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Uppsala
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