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A kiss from your daddy
Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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Sheldonian Ceiling
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Izal Toilet Tissue (3D)
Izal Toilet Tissue (3D)
‘Bosniac Girl of the Possávina’
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Poster "Educate the children to work"
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Theodor de Bry, Mining in Potosí (1596)
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Medicinal objects in princely collections
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Мозаика (Казахстан)
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'Star forts', 'gunpowder fortifications', and the 'trace italienne'
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 391(5), fol. 9r
VI.3 The founder: a university professor
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T6: Silver stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Pickled Cucumbers (Kyrgyzstan)
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Astrological tool
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The growth of the empire, c. 559-500 BC
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A satchel for a scholar
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Humanist botany: the case of Dioscorides
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The spread of printing in Europe, 1455-1500
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Botanical gardeners: in the university, but not of the university. Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641–1719)
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Papal Coin, John XXII
Memphis Customs Account
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Нагрудный туристический значок «Биби-Ханым»
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