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A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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Comenius's Praeludia, 1637
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JH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment.
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Anatomical Theatres
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‘Bosnian Belle’
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Ecclesiastical territories: the bishop of Würzburg as a reforming prince, 1573-1617
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Clone of The Rise of Renaissance Botany
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Map of the New World, 1544
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Drawing of Johanninpoika Marataja
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Pietro Perugino, The Delivery of Keys to St Peter (1481-1482)
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Saami settlement on Lake Hammasjarvi
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Map of Europe in 1519
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The Five Orders of Architecture: Sebastiano Serlio (1537/1611)
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Anatomical engravings
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 43v
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Anthony Wood (1632-1695) and Postmaster's Hall
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Houses and totem poles in Masset
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Musaeum Calceolarii, 1622
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Carta Pisana, ca 1275-1300
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Finnish family
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 42r
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William Gilpin, Observations on the River Wye and Several Parts of South Wales (London, 1789)
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Comparing fruits: carrot family
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