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The First 20 Years, 1450-1470: Earliest specimens in print
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Translating the five orders: John Thorpe, 1601
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Karaburun Tumulus II, early 5th century BC.
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Польский молитвенник (Казахстан)
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 5, 1915
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Clone of Herbal of Leonhard Fuchs (1542)
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Globus Magnus Orichalcicus
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European bellicosity, 1100-1700
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The key to miniaturisation: the Fusee, early 15th century
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Artillery
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Models of Saami men
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Oxford as a Window on Seventeenth-Century Science
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Желтоксан (Казахстан)
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 399, folios 18r-22r
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Adaptation: Early papermaking in Italy, 1264
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Чемодан (Казахстан)
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IV.5 The method for debating questions: the disputation
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Wenzel Jamnitzer (c.1508-1585), Silver writing box
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Perspective Applied: Masaccio, Trinità (c.1426-1428)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 184)
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VI.5 Early milestones: Reformation disputations
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V.2 The 'studia humanitatis': what was at stake?
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Philip II's El Escorial (1564-1584)
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Свидетельство репрессий (Кыргызстан)
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