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Eurasia and Africa c. 1025 AD
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Official letters
Automata
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Russian man
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Robert Boyle, Sceptical Chymist, 1661
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The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Autograph inscription by Sir Henry Wotton to the Bodleian Library, 15 August 1633
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Introduction
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Pavilion
15. Eyeglasses
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Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Ulm, 1482)
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Arcimboldo, Rudolf II as Vertumnus (1590-1591)
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Transcription: "The Star's Letter Box."
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Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, MS C 54, fol. 41v
Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
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Saami boy
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Another parallatic or ruler-instrument which shows the altitudes as well as the azimuths
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Exhibition case
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The astrolabe
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The Achaemenids in the Shahnameh
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", May 5 1915
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 40v
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2. Magnetic Compass
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Browne's Collection: a 'Cabinet of Rarities'
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