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Frans Post, A Sugar Mill Driven by a Small River (c.1650-1655)
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Cabinet for August of Brunswick-Lüneburg, c. 1630
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Canadian Skin Shirt
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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15. Eyeglasses
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VI.8 Institutionalising humanist philology
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Francois Dubois, St Bartolomew's Day Massacre (24 August 1572)
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Medicinal objects in princely collections
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Boat on the Kitinen river
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The earliest book printed with movable type (1377)
Insects
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Titian, Portrait of Jacopo Sannazaro (c.1514-1518)
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 12 1915
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Kara-kum Sweets (Central Asia)
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Daniel Sennert (1572-1637)
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Drawing of mountains
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Jacopo Pontormo, The Deposition from the Cross (1525-1528)
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John Tradescant Jr in his Garden
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An anatomical landmark: Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Rhodes Building at Oriel College, High Street
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Friar Bacon's Study and Folly Bridge
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Prince Rupert's (1619-1682) plate
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Sextans Chalibeus
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Drawing of Johanninpoika Marataja
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