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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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Philosophical Transactions, no. 178 (1685)
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Andrea Palladio, Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice (1566-1610)
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The King's Gate, Corpus Christi College
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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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Wellcome MS 49, fol. 38r
Saxon woman
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Title page to part one: Organographia
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Richard Verstegan, Theatrum Crudelitatem Haereticorum Nostri Temporis (1587)
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Swedish woman
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Albrecht Dürer, Stag beetle, 1505
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Crucifix Dial, Adriaan Zeelst (1588)
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Saami man
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Clone of Pietro Perugino, The Delivery of Keys to St Peter (1481-1482)
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The British War Medal
Sundials in antiquity
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Man
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Brain and ocular system
Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Birth certificate (Kazakhstan)
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The Idle Shepherd Boys continued (vol. 2)
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Samuel Puchas, Purchas his pilgrimes, vol. 3 (London, 1625)
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