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50 Iranian Rial Banknote of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
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Immortal fame
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The 1491 First Edition of Dante's Lyric Poetry
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The printing process
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 41v
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Spoon of reindeer antler (3-D)
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Clone of An Orthopaedic Stretcher from the Dresden Kunstkammer
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Telegrams
Drawing of a Saami teacher
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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‘Bosnian Belle’
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T18: Silver siglos, “King half-length” Carradice Type 1.
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John Parkinson's 'Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris' (1629)
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Bodleian, MS Canon. Misc. 248, fol. 42r
The Decrees of the Council of Trent
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T20: Silver siglos, “King with bow and spear” Carradice Type 3.
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T9: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Perikles of Limyra, c. 390-360 BC.
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Jacopo Antonio Marcello Presents the Manuscript of Strabo to Rene d'Anjou (1459)
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Rene Descartes
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Santucci's sphere, Florence, 1588-93
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Clone of Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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David Loggan (1634–1692)
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Iffley Road Annex – Cardo Building