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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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7. Distillation
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Saami bride
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 19 1915
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Bembo Family's Sallust
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T29: Silver dishekel, struck at Tyre, c. 430 BC.
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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Danger
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Santucci's sphere, Florence, 1588-93
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Michael Maier, Symbola aureae mensae, 1617
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William Wordsworth, The Prelude (London, 1850)
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The problem of mobility: Mons Meg, 1449-97
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Saami man
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Arcimboldo, Rudolf II as Vertumnus (1590-1591)
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Matzah (Kazakhstan)
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Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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V.4 Rhetoric: the art of persuasion
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Queenie Vol. VII, No. 2
План-схема Самарканда (Узбекистан)
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Anaphoric water clock, ca 50 BCE
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Плакат «Приучайте детей к труду» (Кыргызстан)
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Fanny's Chickens
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V.2 The 'studia humanitatis': what was at stake?
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