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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court
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Studiolo of Francesco I: A Renaissance Worldview
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Article featuring Helen Carmichael
The Astronomical Clock of Richard of Wallingford (d. 1336)
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Purpose
Novum Testamentum Graece (Strasbourg, 1524)
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Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione (c.1514-1515)
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Lithograph of antlers and weapons
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Francois Dubois, St Bartolomew's Day Massacre (24 August 1572)
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Timekeeping devices
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The Geography of Claudius Ptolemy
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Proscholium and its facade, 1610-12
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Christopher Wren
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Virgil, Eclogues (Aldus Manutius, 1501)
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Pilgrimage
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Grandmother's spindle (Kyrgyzstan)
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Rhodes Building at Oriel College, High Street
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Notes on ‘totemism’ by Edward Burnett Tylor
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 15 February 1902
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Pietro da Cortona, Dying St Alessio (c. 1638)
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Sunday best or bound for China?
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Terracotta 'Persian rider' from Selemieh
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Kepler's three laws: a second astronomical revolution
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 5, fol. 34v