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Image for Morison's variegated Solanum
Seal of Darius I (BM)
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Refurbishing Duke Humphrey's, 1598-1602
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7. Distillation
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university
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Bird feather fan
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Saami bride
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Venetian territories and trade routes
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Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus
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Novum Testamentum Graece (Strasbourg, 1524)
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Mariner’s astrolabe, Spain, bronze (c. 1600)
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Молокосторож [и Молоко] (Казахстан)
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Ewer formed from a Seychelles nut, Prague, 1602
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Biblioteca Malatestiana, Cesena
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Portolan chart of Jorge de Aguiar (1492)
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Michelangelo, Vestibule to the Laurentian Library (1559)
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‘Latin Maiden of Tešanj’
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Early Fellows of the Royal Society
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Tabule astronomice Alfonsi Regis (Venice, 1492)
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The astrolabe
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The mariner's astrolabe and Portuguese exploration
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Three medals: Pip, Squeak and Wilfred
Convocation House, 1634-7
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Samovar (RSFSR/Afghanistan, ca.1925)
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