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The phases of Venus, 1610-23
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The microcosm: The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Clone of New plants, new medicines
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The mechanical clock: origin and purpose
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“Rest in peace, for we are awake”: The Iranian Celebrations of 1971.
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Drawing of Saami children
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Pilgrimage
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Clone of San Zeno Wheel (Verona, c. 1450)
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Anaphoric water clock, ca 50 BCE
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Clone of Portable Sundials
Avarice
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T7: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Kuprlli of Xanthos, c. 480-420 BC.
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Peter Mundy, 1634
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Oswald Croll, Basilica chymica, 1609
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5. Mechanical clock
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An Orthopaedic Stretcher, ca 1548-85
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Lapis Philosophicus
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Arcimboldo, Rudolf II as Vertumnus (1590-1591)
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Lithograph of building at Ornäs
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Astronomical table clock
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Johanninpoika Marataja
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Piero della Francesca, Flagellation (c.1455–1460)
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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