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Maps as symbols of power: Gallery of Maps, Vatican Palace, 1580-83
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Ewer formed from a Seychelles nut, Prague, 1602
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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Russian women
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Interior of a Finnish house
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The not so ‘dark side’
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Nevada-Semipalatinsk pennant (Kazakhstan)
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T23: Silver 1/32 siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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The growth of the empire, c. 559-500 BC
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John Wilkins
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Synopsis of the statutes of the University of Oxford in broadsheet form (1635)
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Folly
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Great azimuth semicircle
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Sundials in antiquity
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Anatomical videos
Birth certificate (Kazakhstan)
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A Copy of the Convivio (MS Ital. d 5)
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T5: Gold stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Plate to print: carrot
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Lithograph of church at Umeå
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