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T24: Gold daric, “King with bow and spear”, Carradice Type 3.
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Houses and totem poles in Masset (glass negative)
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Domenico Remps, 1690s
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The Campaigns of the Nabonidus Chronicle
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 410-11)
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Jan Treck, Still Life with a Pewter Jug and Two Porcelain Plates (1649)
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Украшения бабушки (Кыргызстан)
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T31: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the Egyptian satrap Sabakes, c.340-333 BC.
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Drawing of Saami children
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Oxford's Physick Garden
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Philosophers guiding research
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Saxon woman
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Bird feather fan
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Title page (vol. 1)
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Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
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Explore the Display Case
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Clone of New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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The first map of 'America': the Waldseemüller map, 1507
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Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641-1719)
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Bodleian, MS e. Mus. 19, fol. 165v
The 1514 Appendix Aldina
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The three perfections: poetry and painting
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Albrecht Dürer, The Large Piece of Turf, 1503
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Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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