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Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon (England, late 14th century)
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Al-Idrīsī's world map, 1152
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Galileo's most decisive telescopic observation: the phases of Venus, 1610-23
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T24: Gold daric, “King with bow and spear”, Carradice Type 3.
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 248)
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Raphael, School of Athens (1509-1510)
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Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’, east end of the Court
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Narrating Dante's Life and Love Through His Lyric Poetry
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Hooke's microscope
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Rosso Fiorentino, Elephant Fresco (c. 1536)
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, March 31, 1915
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Assyrian relief from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 26, 1915
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 392-3)
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Great steel quadrant, inscribed in a square, also of steel, and revolving in azimuth
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Designed for travel
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The transmission of knowledge: From manuscript to print
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Anatomy: a manual art, 1493
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Bishops
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Writing Systems
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Finding the qibla
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Colophon, fol. 45v
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