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Elephant Automaton Clock, Augsburg, 1600-10
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Pharmacies and Alchemical Laboratories
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Rice fields (Central Asia)
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13. Sugar
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A map of the spread of printing in Europe: where the books are today
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A supra-national entity
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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Raphael, Drapery study (c. 1508)
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A fragmented polity
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Arcimboldo, Rudolf II as Vertumnus (1590-1591)
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Missions in the Americas
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5. Mechanical clock
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Roberto Valturio, De re militari (1472)
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Travel authorisation by Arshama
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Map of Median Empire (c. 600 BC)
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Introduction
Cylinder seal with royal hero and Bes figure
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Explore the Display Case
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Danby Gate, Botanical Garden, 1632-3
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Drawing of a lake
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III.2 Grammar as key to the tower of learning
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VI.8 Institutionalising humanist philology
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Missions to Africa
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Dala Shiypon in Jarqurgon District (Surkhandaryo Viloyat, Uzbekistan)
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