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Bodleian, MS Canon. Misc. 559, fol. 2r
Reimagination (Кыргызстан)
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Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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Russian women
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Bread roll
Geber
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Botticelli, The Calumny of Apelles (1496-1497)
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Printed model to printed image: Cyclamen
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SS Vicenzo e Atanasio Church, Rome (1644-1650)
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (glass negative)
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I.3. University matriculations in Germany and England, 1400-1810
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Innovation and Printing
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Oxford as a Window on Seventeenth-Century Science
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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'Median' dagger from Deve Hüyük
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The spread of printing in Europe, 1455-1500
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
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A Copy of the Convivio (MS Ital. d 5)
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Peter Mundy, 1634
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Newton's Alchemical Sublimations
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Фотография Азамата Алтая и Чингиза Айтматова (США-Кыргызстан)
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Theophrastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus (1493-1541)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 248)
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