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Eurasia and Africa c. 1025 AD
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Anatomical videos
Raphael, The Disputation on the Sacrament (1509-1510)
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Calligraphy
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5. Mechanical clock
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Popes
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T6: Silver stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Sir Isaac Newton, by Godfrey Keller (1702)
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Saxon woman
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Funerary monument for John Case
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Geographies of collecting
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Conical dial
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 374)
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Islamic calligraphy
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Bronze phiale from Deve Hüyük
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Кукла (Казахстан)
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Arts End, 1610-12
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Printed model to printed image: Blechnum
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Missions to China
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New medicines, new collections: From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Sundials
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"Homesteads for Women" by Fanny Shepherd.
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Chancellor's Court, 1634-7
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