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Kara-kum Sweets (Central Asia)
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VI.7 The Reformation as lecture
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Quentin Metsys, Diptych of Erasmus of Rotterdam and Pieter Gilles (c. 1517)
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Hooke's microscope, 1665
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Drawing of a Croatian woman
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Saami cradle
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna and Child (1488)
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Gunpowder in the Nova reperta
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Aliud instrumentum simile priori
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Корона "Тилля Каш" (Кыргызстан)
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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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Clone of An Orthopaedic Stretcher from the Dresden Kunstkammer
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Studiolo of Francesco I: The Fire Wall
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Drawing of a Croatian woman
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Adhai-dvipa: Jain diagram of the world
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Swiss Mercenaries
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Alchemical Laboratory
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Notes on ‘totemism’ by Edward Burnett Tylor
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna with Four Saints (1505)
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II.3 'Universitas magistrorum et scholarium’: a self-governing corporation of teachers and students
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 40v
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The arts: liberal and mechanical
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Letters Patent of Edward III (1347)
Missions to Africa
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