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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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‘Totem Poles’, an imaginary view of a Haida village by Louis Fairfax Muckley
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Inscriptions on ritual vessels, 11th century BCE
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Philip II's El Escorial (1564-1584)
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Drawing of a camp-fire
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Польский молитвенник (Казахстан)
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Summary chronology of early printing
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Humanist botany: the case of Dioscorides
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Russian servant
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T12: Silver stater struck at Mallos in the name of the general Tiribazos, c. 384-383 BC.
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Robert Morison (1620-83)
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Astronomical Clock of Su Song (1020-1101)
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Danby Gate, Botanical Garden, 1632-3
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Bernard Palissy (attributed), Oval Platter
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Tail fat glass jar (Kazakhstan)
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The King's Gate, Corpus Christi College
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Morison's 'Sciagraphia'
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T25: Gold double-daric, “King with bow and spear”. Carradice Type 3.
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Armillary Sphere
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Buff Ware Rhyton from Deve Hüyük
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Transitions to print: Virgil, Eclogues (Aldus Manutius, 1501)
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The arts: liberal and mechanical
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Town and gown: Authentica habita and the Privilegium scholasticum
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Book Forms: Folded Books
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