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Henry Power, 'Experimental philosophy, in three books' (1664)
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Drawing of a lake
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The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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Heinrich Khunrath (c. 1560–1605)
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Clone of Instruments for Dissection
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1979 offer letter
Robert Fludd's Alchemical Philosophy and Medicine
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Lithograph of a bear hunt
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Nautilus Cup with Eagle Claw (1526-1575)
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Queenie Vol. VII, No. 2
Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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War and Peace in Europe, 1598-1650
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Mariner’s astrolabe, Spain, bronze (c. 1600)
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Verses in praise of Tycho Brahe by Rudolph Caukerchius, fols. 44v-45r.
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Clone of A Musket Ball Puller in Dresden
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BSH15: Silver pennanular bracelet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Shrapnel paper knife
Clone of Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Harvey's Travels
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Clement VII by Sebastiano del Piombo (c. 1531)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 428)
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Albrecht Dürer, Erasmus of Rotterdam (1526)
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Pioneer scarf (Tajikistan)
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BSH5: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment, c. 450–425 BC.
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