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Drawing of flax being prepared
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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The Idle Shepherd Boys (vol. 2)
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Flea
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Modelling the movements of the heavens
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The Moynaq Canned Fish combine (Uzbekistan)
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SS Vicenzo e Atanasio Church, Rome (1644-1650)
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Star Fort of Bourtange, Netherlands (1593)
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Forte Michelangelo, Civitavecchia, Roma (1508-1535)
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Astrolabes: How do they work?
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The Four Voyages of Columbus (1492-1504)
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Польский молитвенник (Казахстан)
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Spoon of decorated reindeer antler
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Papal Coin, Boniface VIII
Арба (Казахстан)
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Astrolabe table clock
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Drawing of the interior of a church
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Wellcome MS 349, fol. 22r
Jan van der Straet, The Alchemist's Laboratory (1570)
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Women's First (and only) Eight, 1982
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Behistun relief and inscription
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 21 1915
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'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' manuscript (17th century)
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The five orders as sets of mathematical proportions: Hans Blum, 1550
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