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JH5: Silver diobol of Miletos (Ionia).
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V.2 The 'studia humanitatis': what was at stake?
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The woodcut as high art form: Dürer, 1498
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Design of Stjerneborg
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Letter from John Wordsworth to his father Revd Wordsworth
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The right man for the job
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Astrolabe table clock, Nuremberg, ca 1686
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Wellcome MS 290, fol. 52v
Recreation of Ancient Paintings: Botticelli, The Calumny of Apelles (1496-1497)
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Newton's Alchemical Sublimations
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Verses in praise of Tycho Brahe by Rudolph Caukerchius
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Inscription (Uzbekistan)
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Books on bamboo
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Porter's note
The mariner's astrolabe: derivation and usage
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Quadrant, England, brass (17th century)
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Repurposed buildings: houses, residences, palaces
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Macrocosm and microcosm
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Homesteading Eligibility Requirements
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Martin Luther (1483-1546) by Lucas Cranach the Elder
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Giambologna, The Rape of the Sabine Woman (1582)
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna with Four Saints (1505)
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A mathematical model?
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Nevada-Semipalatinsk pennant (Kazakhstan)
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