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Copper engraving
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Galileo's most decisive telescopic observation: the phases of Venus, 1610-23
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Quadrant, England, brass (17th century)
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Studiolo of Isabella d'Este
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Star Fort of Palmanova (1593)
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Siege of Constantinople (1453)
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Lives of Ashkenazi Jews (Polish Citizens) in Central Asia
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Queenie No. 5, Vol. VIII
Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644)
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Medieval vs early modern fortifications
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John Gerard's 'The herball' (1633)
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VI.8 Institutionalising humanist philology
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The woodcut as high art form: Dürer, 1498
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Palazzo Carignano, Turin (1679)
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Transcription: "Women and Land."
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2. Magnetic Compass
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Russian kitchen-maid
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Saami woman and daughter
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'Median' dagger from Deve Hüyük
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Saami couple
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Queenie Vol. VIII, No. 5
John Calvin (1509-1564)
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