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Key innovation: the escapement
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Alchemical Pestle and Mortar
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Letters from Samuel Bodger
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Russian peasant
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Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677)
T27: Silver dishekel, struck at Sidon in the name of the satrap Mazaios, 336/5 BC.
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Wellcome MS 349, fol. 22r
Silver "Achaemenid Bowl" (BM)
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New plants from the New World
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The Oxford Philosophical Society
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18. The astrolabe
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Divinity School, 1427-83
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Anatomical Theatres
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university
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Drawing of pottery vessels
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Lithograph of a bear hunt
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T15: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of Tarkumuwa, c. 380-370 BC.
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T11: Silver stater struck at Tarsos, c. 410-385 BC.
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‘Croatian Clothes-shop, Agram’
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Arba (Kazakhstan)
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Medial Wall Sulci Model
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The Gutenberg Bible
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Carlo Plato, Armillary Sphere (1588)
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