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Boat on the Kitinen river
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The mural, or Tychonian, quadrant
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Украшения бабушки (Кыргызстан)
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Hooke's microscope, 1665
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'Like a bundle of thin laths'
William Harvey (1578-1657)
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Pierre Gassendi, 'Institutio Astronomica' (1683)
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Soviet Hovli: The standardized single-family house (Uzbekistan)
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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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‘Roman and Croatian Pottery’
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Andrea Palladio, Villa Barbaro, Maser - Veneto (1554-1558)
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Kara-kum Sweets (Central Asia)
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Execution of Munster Anabaptists
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Transcription: "A Year and a Day."
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Albrecht Dürer, Self-portrait in fur coat, 1500
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University botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Zebra print bikini
Clone of The Rise of Renaissance Botany
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Thomas Browne, 'Posthumous works' (1712)
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, April 21, 1915
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Epitaph of Apis bull
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William Wordsworth, The Prelude (London, 1850)
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Dresden, 1581: Georg Wecker's polyhedra
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