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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Russian basket seller
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Tubeteika (Uzbekistan)
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Nature
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Timeline of voyages
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Family of Sigismund I Jagiellon, c. 1565
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 5, 1915
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Zuccaro, Doorway to Palazzo Zuccari (1590)
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Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Basel, 1542)
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Tabule astronomice Alfonsi Regis (Venice, 1492)
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Adhai-dvipa: Jain diagram of the world
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Georg Christoph Stirn, 1638
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Мозаика (Казахстан)
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Mariner’s astrolabe, Spain, bronze (c. 1600)
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Mathematical model (from 1620)
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Spoon of decorated reindeer antler
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The oldest sundials
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Zodiac Man
Printed model to printed image: Cyclamen
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John Tradescant Jr in his Garden
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, April 21, 1915
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III.4 The Three Higher Faculties: Medicine, Law, and Theology
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Domenico Gargiulo, Piazza del Mercato
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Totem poles
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