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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 222)
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Bicycle
Lithograph of Saami men
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Mariner’s astrolabe, Spain, bronze (c. 1600)
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Robert Morison (1620-83)
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Anonymous 'Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis' (1648)
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Nova reperta: the mechanical clock
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Oxford Physick Garden (1621)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 114)
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Drawing of a lake
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Plant to printed image: Helichrysum
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Clone of The four terrestrial elements
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Japanese 'Inro' Watch
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Ptolemy World Map, 1540
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Venice from Nuremberg Chronicle
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Alchemical Pestle and Mortar
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Displaying ‘kindreds and affinities’
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Darius' Red Sea Canal Stele
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‘Totem Poles’, an imaginary view of a Haida village by Louis Fairfax Muckley
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Helioscope
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Zodiac Man
Astrological tool
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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