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Johann Joachim Winkelmann
Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university. Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641–1719)
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Finnish man
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Giovanni Dondi's Astrarium, 1364
Хлопок как символ (Узбекистан)
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Rice fields (Central Asia)
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Haida helmet (3-D)
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«Манас» Орозбакова (Кыргызстан)
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Robert Morison (1620-83)
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The Holy Roman Empire
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Convocation House, 1634-7
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John Parkinson's 'Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris' (1629)
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"One small step..."
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Map of the New World, 1544
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Nova reperta: title page
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Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, Augsburg, ca 1625
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Perspective Applied: Masaccio, Trinità (c.1426-1428)
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‘Head of Brenese Peasant’
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T21: Silver siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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Birth certificate (Kazakhstan)
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Painting with oils: a recent invention
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Christopher Wren
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Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’, east end of the Court
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An anatomical landmark: Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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