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Private Lives
Philosophers guiding research
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Plant to printed image: Helichrysum
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An unlikely duo
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John Parkinson's 'Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris' (1629)
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, c. 1620
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Mystics
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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The terrestrial sphere: the four terrestrial elements
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'Star forts', 'gunpowder fortifications', and the 'trace italienne'
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A New Profession
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French invasion of Italy, 1494
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Automaton monk, probably Spanish, ca 1550
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Gilt silver rhyton (BM)
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VI.5 Early milestones: Reformation disputations
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Letter from John Wordsworth to his father Revd Wordsworth
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Happy Birthday
Hooke's Micrographia, 1665
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Autobiography of Udjahorresne
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Astronomical sextant for measuring altitudes
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Saami woman
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," March 31 1915
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Prague, 1599-1612: The Rudolphine Tables (1627)
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Saami woman
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