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The ancient papermaking process
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Clone of Oxford Physick Garden (1621)
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T28: Silver sixteenth-shekel, struck at Sidon in the name of the satrap Mazaios, 336/5 BC.
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Oxford's Physick Garden, 1621
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Emblem 'Am I not a Man and a Brother'?
Supplement regarding the subdivision and dioptre of the instruments
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Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641-1719)
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Morisonian Herbarium
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Lithograph of a bear hunt
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The Pakhtakhor-79 Monument (Uzbekistan/Ukraine)
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Sir Isaac Newton, by Godfrey Keller (1702)
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Rose Hughes' album
Nixon’s the charm
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Designed for travel
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The Four Voyages of Columbus (1492-1504)
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Icon of Mahatma Gandhi
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Hemispherical bowl from Deve Hüyük
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Origins of paper
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‘Christian Gravestone’
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Ancient Egyptian scarab beetles (c. 3100–525 BC)
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 17403, folios 4r-4v
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Chess-Man
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Newton's Alchemical Sublimations
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