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Florence, 1588-93: Santucci's sphere
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Drawing of Johanninpoika Marataja
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The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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Cylinder seal with royal hero and Bes figure
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JH1: Silver stater of Messana (Sicily), c. 488–481 BC.
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Missions to India
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Santucci's sphere, Florence, 1588-93
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David Loggan’s ‘Hortus Botanicus' (1675)
Image for Print entitled ‘Hortus Botanicus The Physick Garden in Oxon’ from David Loggan (1675) Oxonia illustrata, sive Omnium celeberrimae istius universitatis collegiorum, aularum, bibliothecae Bodleianae, scholarum publicarum, Theatri Sheldoniani; nec non urbis
Russian basket seller
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Lithograph of a Swedish man and woman
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The oldest sundials
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Fust and Schoeffer in Mainz, 1457-1466
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Rosso Fiorentino, Elephant Fresco (c. 1536)
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10. The Watermill
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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Visualizing 'The Movement of the Heart and the Blood in Living Creatures' (1628)
Harvey de motu cordis
Swiss Mercenaries
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The arts: liberal and mechanical
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BSH3: Silver tetradrachm of Akanthos (Chalcidice), fragment, c. 470 BC.
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Week 6: Sites and Sources
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Central Oxford in 1643
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Introduction and Contents
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Oxford as a Window on Seventeenth-Century Science
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David Teniers the Younger, The Alchemist (1643/45)
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