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Astronomical Clock of Su Song (1020-1101)
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Rembrandt, Self portrait
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Tail fat glass jar (Kazakhstan)
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Sir Isaac Newton, by Godfrey Keller (1702)
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The Life of Sir Thomas Browne
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Studiolo of Isabella d'Este
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Introduction
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T26: Silver dishekel, struck at Sidon in the name of Tennes, c. 354-348 BC.
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Pilgrimage and the Jubilee
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Milk Guard [ and Milk ] (Kazakhstan)
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The Drake Chair
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Assyrian relief from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud
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Innovation and Printing
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Drawing of a Saami settlement on Lake Hammasjarvi
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VI.2 The overall pattern: matriculations and foundations
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Saami man
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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Bodleian, MS Digby 81, fol. 128v
Коллекция почтовых марок «Народы СССР» (Центральная Азия)
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The oldest sundials
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The 15th-century printing types
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Drawing of pottery vessels and other items
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Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (Basel, 1542)
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Map of Europe in 1519
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