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Mercury and Sulphur in Splendor Solis
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Carta Pisana, ca 1275-1300
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Printed model to printed image: Mimosa
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Title page of Francis Bacon's Instauratio Magna (1620)
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My grandmother’s jewellery
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Albrecht Dürer, Erasmus of Rotterdam (1526)
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Baked potato
Ancient Egyptian scarab beetles (c. 3100–525 BC)
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Finnish boatmen
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Title page to part one: Organographia
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Key innovation: the escapement
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JH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment.
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 43v
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T23: Silver 1/32 siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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Transcription: "Mother's Holiday."
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‘Head of Brenese Peasant’
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Lithograph of Saami people
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Armillae aliae AEquatoriae
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Tabula Rogeriana
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Erasmus, Title Page of Adagia (1518)
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Christopher Wren's (1632-1723) plate
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Descartes' Discourse (1637)
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The four terrestrial elements
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