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Lithograph of Saami people
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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Clone of A Musket Ball Puller in Dresden
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Portable Sundials
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Musaeum Tradescantianum, 1656
Islamic calligraphy
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Drawing of an Alchemical House from Libavius (1606)
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Homesteading Eligibility Requirements
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Finnish family
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Silver 'quasi-phiale' from the Lydian Treasure
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Ottoman Turkish map: fragment of the world map of Piri Reis, 1513
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Paper in Chinese folk culture
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Cells
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Young soldier in the Middle East
Фотография Азамата Алтая и Чингиза Айтматова (США-Кыргызстан)
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Book Forms: Folded Books
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Monstrances
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Oswald Croll, Basilica chymica, 1609
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II.1 Where, and what, is the university?
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T25: Gold double-daric, “King with bow and spear”. Carradice Type 3.
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Friar Bacon's Study and Folly Bridge
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T31: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the Egyptian satrap Sabakes, c.340-333 BC.
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The spread of printing in Europe, 1455-1500
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