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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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The origin and spread of botanical gardens in European universities
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The five orders and the five platonic solids: 'Mathematical Model', 1620
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Birth Certificate: Abrasha Levaevich Il’yasov (Uzbekistan)
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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‘Monster House’
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Goblet made from a bezoar, Prague c. 1600
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, ff. 42v - 43r
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Reformers
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (print)
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Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Archer Baker, 18 January 1901
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Embriachi Casket (3D)
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Titian, Portrait of Isabella d'Este (c. 1534-1536)
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 17403, folios 4r-4v
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Automata
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Translocation: the transfer of papermaking to Europe
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Examination Papers (1978)
Spots on the sun, 1612-13
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Rosso Fiorentino, Dead Christ with Angels (1524-1525)
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Bladder fish
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Sundials in Oxford today
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Oxford's most famous sundial
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Cotton Combines (Tajikistan)
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Queenie Vol. VIII, No. 2