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Vatican Library, Pal.lat. 1369, fol. 148r
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Recreation of Ancient Paintings: Botticelli, The Calumny of Apelles (1496-1497)
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Ribeiro planisphere of 1529
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Oxford's Physick Garden, 1621
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Медаль материнства первой степени (Центральная Азия)
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Insects
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The Idle Shepherd Boys (vol. 2)
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Astronomical table clock
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‘Head of Slavonian’
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Beyond Mainz: The Diaspora of Printing Shops
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South Porch, University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, 1637
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Lighter
Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Frans Post, A Sugar Mill Driven by a Small River (c.1650-1655)
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Firearms: the earliest European image, 1326-7
Cinnamon, peppercorns, nutmeg and cloves
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The Ming Empire (1368-1644)
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university
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Saami bride
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Medial Wall Sulci Model
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Russian servant
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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘On the Totem-Post from the Haida Village of Masset...’ (1899)
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10. The Watermill
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Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1875)
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