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Rene Descartes
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Camera obscura
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'Palissy Ware' Dish
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Plan of Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
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Robert Plot
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Melozzo da Forlì, Sixtus IV Appointing Platina as Prefect of the Vatican Library (1477)
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Medal of “Motherhood” (Central Asia)
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Europe c. 1700
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The British War Medal
Verses in praise of Tycho Brahe by Rudolph Caukerchius
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Oxford's defences, 1644: a garbled map
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William Lisle Bowles, Fourteen sonnets (Bath, 1789)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 324)
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Drawing of classical tombstones
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Nixon’s the charm
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Map of Europe in 1519
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Orozbakov’s Manas (Kyrgyzstan)
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Origins of paper
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Pietro da Cortona, Ceiling of Palazzo Barberini, Rome (1633-1639)
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Totem poles
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Haida helmet (3-D)
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Leo X by Raphael (c. 1518)
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Fragment of the Rose Tapestries, wool and silk (1480s)
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