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Models of Saami women
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Lantern clock with pyramid stand (c. 1700)
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Bobart the Younger’s Hortus Siccus
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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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European bellicosity, 1100-1700
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‘Christian Monuments, Tassorić’ / ‘Graveyard at Tassorić’
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Plane dial
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"One small step..."
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Cornelis Bega, The Alchemist (1663)
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Happy Birthday
Plate to print: process
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Speculum academicum (1638): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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Queenie Vol. VI, No. 1
Drawing of Mount Bjelašnica
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Russian couple
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone’, manuscript on paper, 1800
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Venice from Nuremberg Chronicle
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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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Head of a fly
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John Fell's (1625-1686) plate
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IV.5 The method for debating questions: the disputation
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A trip to the moon
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Verses in praise of Tycho Brahe by Rudolph Caukerchius
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