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2. Magnetic Compass
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Elephant Automaton Clock, Augsburg, 1600-10
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Printing and salvation in Japan: One Million Pagodas, ca. 764–70 CE
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Sundials in antiquity
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A supra-national entity
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The 1527 Giuntina
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The world's earliest dated printed book: The Diamond Sutra, 868 CE
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Cornelis Bega, The Alchemist (1663)
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Samovar (RSFSR/Afghanistan, ca.1925)
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Pope Julius II by Raphael (1511)
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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The Slave Trade
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Spectacles: technology unknown to the ancients
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V.4 Rhetoric: the art of persuasion
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4. Printing
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Francois Dubois, St Bartolomew's Day Massacre
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Origin of coins in the Jordan Hoard
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Meydancıkkale
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An Orthopaedic Stretcher, ca 1548-85
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Russian men
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Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort's (1630-1715) plate
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Philology: The Antwerp polyglot, 1568-73
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