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Clone of The four humours of Galenic medicine
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University of Helmstedt
Design of the main buildings of Uraniborg
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Statue of Buddha
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The oldest sundials
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China under the Song Dynasty
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Assyrian relief from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud
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Joris Hoefnagel, Insects, c. 1590-1600
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The Swedish Empire, 1560-1815
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Recording stories and memories
Comparing fruits: carrot family
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Nabonidus Chronicle (BM)
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Polish men
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Mercator, World Map (1569)
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Stele of Xerxes from the Hierothesion of Antiochus I.
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Crucifixion in coral
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Clone of New plants, new medicines
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BSH12: Silver bar-ingot (cut down).
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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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‘Totem Poles’, an imaginary view of a Haida village by Louis Fairfax Muckley
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Francis Bacon at 17 years of age, 1578
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Musaeum Tradescantianum, 1656
11. The Windmill
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 40v
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