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Opium Banknote (Turkestan)
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Cartography: the Waldseemüller map, 1507
Seth Ward
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Compass in Johannes Stradanus's Nova reperta
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VI.9 Unintended consequences
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The four terrestrial elements
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Xanthos Trilingual, 337 BC
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Clone of Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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Mappa Mundi
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Interior of a Finnish house
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Prague, 1599-1612: The Rudolphine Tables (1627)
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Man in the Moon
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Wenzel Jamnitzer (c.1508-1585), Silver writing box
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Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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Thomas Browne, 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' (1672)
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, March 31, 1915
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Theophrastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus (1493-1541)
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Russian sleigh
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The Suitcase (Kazakhstan)
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'Like a bundle of thin laths'
Printing in Venice
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 420-21)
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