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Galileo's most decisive telescopic observation: the phases of Venus, 1610-23
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Common-sense interpretation: concentric spheres in uniform circular motion around the stationary earth
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Instruments: preserved in the Museo Galileo
The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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Jardin des Plantes in Paris (1636)
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Silver oinochoe with kouros handle from the Lydian Treasure
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Beer cellar
Clone of Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica cover (in depth)
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Antiquarianism in the Aegean
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Russian basket seller
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Japanese pillar clock
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Bodleian, MS Canon. Misc. 559, fol. 2r
Pitt Rivers Museum, looking south-east across the Court
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Wax profile of William of Wykeham
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Humanist botany: the case of Dioscorides
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Virgil, Eclogues (Aldus Manutius, 1501)
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Cabinet for August of Brunswick-Lüneburg, c. 1630
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Anatomical videos
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Richard Verstegan, Theatrum Crudelitatem Haereticorum Nostri Temporis (1587)
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Pietro da Cortona, Ceiling of Palazzo Barberini, Rome (1633-1639)
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Speculum academicum (1638): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Astronomical sextant for measuring altitudes
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