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Male reproductive system
Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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Papal Coin, Boniface VIII
III.2 Grammar as key to the tower of learning
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Arrowhead on chain from Deve Hüyük
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Kano Naizen, Portuguese Carrack in Nagasaki (late 16th-early 17th century)
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Wax profile of William of Wykeham
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Советская пиала (Узбекистан)
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Aliud instrumentum simile priori
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Justus Lipsius (1547-1606)
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Oldenburg's correspondence
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Christopher Wren's (1632-1723) plate
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Venetian territories and trade routes
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The maps of Mao Yuanyi (c. 1621)
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The spread of printing in Europe, 1455-1500
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Inscription to Cecil Rhodes - King Edward Street
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Battle of Lützen (6 / 16 November 1632)
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 420-21)
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Ribeiro planisphere of 1529
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Armillae AEquatoriae maximae
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Francis Bacon at 17 years of age, 1578
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Saami bride and groom
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