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5. Mechanical clock
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The first permanent anatomical theatre: Padua, 1594
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BSH7: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class B””), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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Gnomonics
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‘Bulgarian Settlement’
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Transcription: "Use The Language of Love."
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, April 7, 1915
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The phases of Venus, 1610-23
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III.5 Common hierarchies
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The Slave Trade
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Ewer formed from a Seychelles nut, Prague, 1602
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BSH1: Silver didrachm of Segesta (Sicily), c. 475–450 BC.
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Anaphoric water clock, ca 50 BCE
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August of Saxony by Lucas Cranach jr., 1572
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The printing process
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The Cotton Symbol (Uzbekistan)
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Agnus Dei
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Quadrans Maximus
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I. America
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Drawing of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Uppsala
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Rudolf II by Hans von Aachen, 1606/8
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Europe c. 1000 AD
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Конфеты Кара-Кум (Центральная Азия)
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