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Saami woman
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Spots on the sun, 1612-13
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Oxford's defences, 1648
Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Archer Baker, 18 January 1901
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War and Peace in Europe, 1598-1650
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John Gerard's 'The herball' (1633)
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Rice fields (Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan)
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Traditional Chinese papermaking today
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The four terrestrial elements
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Studiolo of Francesco I: A Renaissance Worldview
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Morisonian Herbarium
Image for Herbarium specimen labelled ‘Ranunculus ceratophyllus seminibus falcatis in spicam adactis. Moris. Hist. Oxon. [I] 440 [No. 22] Melampyrum luteum minimum. C.BP. 234.’ [Jacob Bobart the Younger’s hand, with items in square brackets in the hand of Henry Edw
13. Sugar
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Florence, 1588-93: Santucci's sphere
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university. Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641–1719)
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Wooden Cross (3D)
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Three-pillared compound microscope, 1760s
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The Swedish Empire, 1560-1815
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Urban VIII by Pietro da Cortona (c. 1624-1627)
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BSH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, c. 450–425 BC.
Image for BSH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, c. 450–425 BC. Kraay and Moorey 1981, no.7. [Obverse]
Saami women
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Rosso Fiorentino, Elephant Fresco (c. 1536)
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Languages of East Asia
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Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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