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Fragment of the Rose Tapestries, wool and silk (1480s)
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Church at Rovaniemi
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Crown “Tilla Kash” (Kyrgyzstan)
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John Wilkins
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Medieval European cartography, c. 1280: speculative and symbolic
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Thomas Browne, 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica' (1672)
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Travel authorisation by Arshama
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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘On Two British Columbian House-Posts...’ (1899)
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Nautilus Cup with Eagle Claw (1526-1575)
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Remedy for women
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Cornelis Bega, The Alchemist (1663)
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John Parkinson's 'Theatrum botanicum' (1640)
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Statue of Darius from Susa
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Почетные грамоты (Казахстан)
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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The Rudolphine Tables (1627)
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‘Croat Woman in the Agram Market’
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 391(5), fol. 9r
Printed model to printed image: Mimosa
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A Scientific Revolution
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Hven, 1576-97: Tycho Brahe's observatory
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The Alexander Mosaic.
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Sextans Astronomicus Trigonicus
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Explanation of the design of Uraniborg with all its premises
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