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South Porch, University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, 1637
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Room
7. Distillation
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The five orders as sets of mathematical proportions: Hans Blum, 1550
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Purpose
The newly acquired Gothic coffer
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The 15th-century printing types
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Серьги «Самовары»
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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘On the Totem-Post from the Haida Village of Masset...’ (1899)
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Lantern clock with pyramid stand (c. 1700)
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Saami couple
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David Loggan’s ‘Hortus Botanicus' (1675)
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Soldier’s Letters
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Johanninpoika Marataja
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Domenichino, Triumphal Arch (c. 1609)
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Drawing of a lake
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Selden End, 1634-7
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Key innovation: the escapement
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Epitaph of Apis bull
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Thomas Browne, 'Posthumous works' (1712)
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T6: Silver stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 420-21)
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Clone of San Zeno Wheel (Verona, c. 1450)
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Roberto Valturio, De re militari (1472)
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