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Redesigning the college library: Merton, 1589-90
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Fanny's Scales
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Russian tailor’s apprentices
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Heinrich Khunrath (c. 1560–1605)
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Cotton scale (Tajikistan)
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Quentin Metsys, Diptych of Erasmus of Rotterdam and Pieter Gilles (c. 1517)
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", May 5 1915
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Francois Dubois, St Bartolomew's Day Massacre
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Folly
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The Geography of Claudius Ptolemy
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A Florentine Poetic Anthology (MS Can. Ital. 99)
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Morison's 'Historiae': Volume 1
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Clone of Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Mongol Empire in 1290
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A trip to the moon
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Beetles
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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Early Fellows of the Royal Society
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Lunar volvelle
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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘On Two British Columbian House-Posts...’ (1899)
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Origin of coins in the Jordan Hoard
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Planning the New Basilica
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BSH18: Silver ram's head terminal, from the Black Sea hoard
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